Canada - Alberta?s Most Beautiful National Parks (39/59)

Canada - Alberta?s Most Beautiful National Parks (39/59)

Year after year, thousands of people are attracted by the most beautiful Canadian national parks.  They come for hiking, for rafting, for cruising on their motorbikes or just to enjoy the unbelievable wideness and stillness of the Rocky Mountains. There are, however, also people who live in this gorgeous landscape and who would never ever leave. Peter Lemieux came here when he was 26 years old and skiing instructor. Now he is one of the best known mountain guides to the Athabasca Glacier. He knows "his" glacier better than anybody else and he experiences at firsthand how the ice keeps receding year after year. Cowgirl Jen runs her great-grandparents' ranch - the oldest ranch in Alberta.  The ranch is the home of 150 cattle, 20 horses and apart from those animals only Jen and her two children. She's no fool when it comes to handling animals and even when a cowboy's daily routine is oftentimes a hard one, she would not want to change it against anything else. We are travelling further up North via the Icefields Parkway.  We encounter bears and moose but also Scottish clan members who compete against each other in tossing the caber. And everywhere we meet people who prefer the life in the national parks' wideness to a life in a city. We get to know what enthuses them so much and will be attracted to the spell of this absolutely unique landscape.

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