CANADIAN ROCKIES: Where the Ice Age Never Fully Left | 4K Travel Documentary

A cinematic road journey through the Canadian Rockies, from Canmore and Banff north along the Icefields Parkway to Jasper and Mount Robson, testing one theory: in the Canadian Rockies, the Ice Age never fully left. The ice still colors the lakes, carves the valleys, feeds the rivers, and decides where the railway, the towns and the wildlife go. Chapters 0:00 The Canadian Rockies: where the Ice Age never left 2:47 Map: Alberta, British Columbia and our route 4:35 Canmore 6:21 Banff 9:17 Vermilion Lakes 9:45 Lake Minnewanka 10:49 Johnston Canyon 11:52 Kootenay National Park 13:13 Lake Louise 16:28 Plain of Six Glaciers 17:34 Moraine Lake 19:23 Yoho National Park 22:04 Icefields Parkway 23:49 Bow Lake 25:45 Peyto Lake 27:39 Mistaya Canyon 27:54 Saskatchewan Crossing 28:51 Columbia Icefield 30:11 Athabasca Glacier 32:32 A day with a mountain safety specialist 34:30 Elk, bears and the wildlife bridges 36:24 Field Note: chinook, the snow eater 37:52 Sunwapta River 38:04 Athabasca River 39:14 Jasper 41:05 Maligne Canyon 41:22 Medicine Lake 42:55 Maligne Lake 44:18 Food of the Rockies + planning your trip 46:30 Mount Robson 47:55 How long does the ice have left? Sources include Parks Canada (Banff, Jasper, Yoho and Kootenay national parks; Columbia Icefield and Athabasca Glacier; Icefields Parkway history; Trans-Canada Highway wildlife crossings; visitor safety), NASA Earth Observatory (Peyto Glacier), Marshall (2014, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences) on glacier melt in the Bow River, Clarke et al. (2015, Nature Geoscience) on the future of western Canada's glaciers, the City of Calgary, Statistics Canada (2021 Census) and UNESCO. Footage: licensed stock (Motion Array). Maps: Natural Earth (public domain). Music: YouTube Audio Library. Archival images: Wikimedia Commons (public domain unless noted). "Athabasca Glacier from the valley floor, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.jpg" by Ethan Sahagun, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Athabasca Glacier where it emerges from Columbia Icefield 2015 09 4841.jpg" by ImagePerson, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Columbia Icefield - panoramio.jpg" by rokker, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Columbia Icefield where it descends onto Athabasca Glacier 4817.jpg" by ImagePerson, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Meltwater at the terminus of the Athabasca Glacier, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.jpg" by Ethan Sahagun, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Spirit Island -- Maligne Lake Jasper National Park Alberta (Canada) September 2019 (49143633606).jpg" by Ron Cogswell from Arlington, Virginia, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Spirit Island on Maligne Lake1.jpg" by Bernd Thaller, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons