- CA JMABC A.1985.001-1-72-LF.01666
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- [1924]
Photograph depicts Abbot Pass. Abbot Pass is a col in the Continental Divide between Banff and Yoho National Parks. It is located at an altitude of 2,925 metres (9,598 feet) and about 1,372 metres (4,500 feet) above Lake Louise. Abbot Pass was named in honour of Philip Stanley Abbot, who became the first mountaineering fatality in the Canadian Rockies when he fell to his death in 1896 while attempting to climb Mount Lefroy.
Landscape shows difficult, rocky mountain terrain with partial snow cover.