A glacier with its wings out, hanging over a 300 metre cliff
A 3,363 metre wall of rock standing over the Athabasca valley, named in 1916 for Edith Cavell, the British nurse the Germans executed for helping Allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium. Hanging on its north face is the Angel Glacier, which spills over a 300 metre cliff with its wings out, and it is one of the few glaciers in these mountains you can stand under and take in whole. The Cavell Meadows trail goes 3.8 kilometres one way and climbs 370 metres to 2,135, through country that was under ice within living memory and is now wildflower meadow. The road in is narrow, steep and seasonal, and the mountain sheds ice without asking: obey the closures at the bottom of the moraine, they are there because this face has come down before.
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