Photograph shot in September, 2005
Copyright 2006 Lydia Hinshaw
JASPER, AB -- One of our favorite places to visit in Jasper National Park is Mount Edith Cavell, the biggest and most impressive mountain in this area.
Edith Cavell was a British nurse and World War I hero who never set foot in Canada. While tending wounded men at a field hospital in Belgium, she spent her spare time helping captured British soldiers escape. When the Germans found out, they executed her.
Mount Edith Cavell has its own glacier, which melts and fractures into a lake at its base. When we visited Edith last September, we walked among grounded icebergs bigger than automobiles along the shores of the lake.
We would have enjoyed another visit with Edith this week, but you can't get there from here. The steep, twisting, nine-mile road to the foot of the glacier will not be cleared of snow and opened to tourists until June 15 or so.
We couldn't even see Edith today, as heavy clouds obscured all of the mountains surrounding Jasper. Edith most likely got a heavy dusting of new snow, while the rest of us watched it rain most of the day.
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