For the average tourist, complete with walking boots and a pole, it is not difficult to gain the heights above Jasper - a town of about 5,000 which has not really grown at all in the last 20 years as it is in the middle of a National Park and land is not made available for the development of housing. All you need to do is to get into the tram (!) which will then whisk you to the top of the mountain. After that, the intrepid traveller can climb a few more hundred feet to the top.
From here, the views are stunning and the Rockies are rockier. You can look back to the west and see that, 50 miles away, the peak of Mount Robson is still in the clouds!
Closer at hand, you are spoilt for choice. The mountains are everywhere, with cornices on the rocky peaks ready to break off when the climatic conditions tell them to and plunge thousands of feet down the rock faces.
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