Jasper on fire: The earth's climate keeps warming while one of Canada's most beautiful places is burning
Several of the most joyous, fulfilling days of my life have been spent hiking the expanse of meadows facing 11,033′ Mount Edith Cavell and its Angel Wing Glacier, just south of Jasper in its namesake national park in the Canadian Rockies.
It is high summer vacation season, but Jasper National Park is currently closed and smoldering. A devastating fire swept into the township last week, destroying 1,113 homes and other structures in the township.
One of those structures was the Maligne Lodge, where my partner and I adjourned for a patio dinner with views back at Mt. Edie, named for a British nurse executed by Germans in World War I.
Fred Beckey and Yvon Chouinard did the first ascent of its formidable north face and found a flask of brandy from the park warden when they came down from the mountain.
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