ACC Gazette Section Stories: Edmonton

A Tour Of The Wapta Icefields

Story by Ellen Homola for the 2025 Gazette, photos by Dustin McLachlan

I hadn’t met any of our group of nine who would be traversing the Wapta Icefields, so we met in an Edmonton playground to practise our crevasse rescue. I had taken a crevasse course but hadn’t done any glacier travel since, so I practised every day for a week in my living room. We carpooled to Lake Louise where we spent the night at the hostel in...