Mountain Legacy Project, Athabasca Glacier from below Wilcox peak, 2011.

The Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park, as it appeared during Summer, 2011, seen from high elevation, across the valley from below Wilcox Peak. This face-on view of the glacier shows it cascading down three giant ice steps from the saddle of two snow-capped peaks and stretching, like a tongue, down the center of the image into a vast and barren glacier-carved valley of grey-brown stone. High mounded ridges of stone talus (glacial moraines) flank the glacier on both sides as it flows down the slope, also extending well beyond the toe of the glacier. This indicates that at one time the glacier must have been much longer.