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Canyon wall reinforcement, Fraser Canyon, BC - Hell's Gate

Photograph depicts Hell's Gate. Hell's Gate is a 35 metre (110 ft) narrowing of British Columbia's Fraser River Canyon, located immediately downstream of Boston Bar. The name is derived from an entry in explorer Simon Fraser's diary which said of the gorge, “We had to travel where no human being should venture, for surely we have encountered the gates of hell" (Simon Fraser, 1808).

River rapids in foreground of image; group of people standing on viewing area of concrete canyon wall reinforcement in right of image.