Once upon a time, Jasper National Park’s Athabasca Glacier was one of North America’s roadside 
wonders: This arm of the vast Columbia Icefield stretched almost all the way down to Alberta’s Icefields Parkway, which carries tourists between Banff and Jasper. It is the most visited glacier in North America. But global warming has melted the glacier back 1.5 kilometers from the roadway, and visitors must now trek along a path whose interpretive signs mark the years of the glacier’s retreat. Set amid spectacular snow-clad peaks in the Canadian Rockies, this is one of the best places anywhere to witness anthropogenic climate change.
Text by Eric Lucas; photo editing by Connie Ricca.
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