Abbot Pass lies between

Mount Lefroy Mount Lefroy is a mountain on the Continental Divide, at the border of Alberta and British Columbia in western Canada. The mountain is located on the eastern side of Abbot Pass which separates Lake Louise in Banff National Park from Lake O'Hara ...

and Mount Victoria, in the divide between the valleys of

Lake O'Hara Lake O'Hara is a lake at an elevation of in the alpine area of Yoho National Park, in the province of British Columbia, on the western side of the Great Divide with the province of Alberta and Banff National Park to the east. The lake and the va ...

and Lake Louise. It was named for

Philip Stanley Abbot Philip Stanley Abbot (September 1, 1867 – August 3, 1896) was an American lawyer who died while climbing Mount Lefroy. His death became the first recorded mountaineering fatality in North America. Biography Abbot was a graduate of Harvard ( ...

who died in 1896 in an attempt to climb Mount Lefroy with Charles Fay, Charles Thompson, and George T. Little.National Historic Sites
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Parks Canada Parks Canada (PC; french: Parcs Canada),Parks Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Parks Canada Agency (). is the agency of the Government of Canada which manages the country's 48 National Parks, th ...

, retrieved 2006-08-27 Abbot Pass has a stone

hut A hut is a small dwelling, which may be constructed of various local materials. Huts are a type of vernacular architecture because they are built of readily available materials such as wood, snow, ice, stone, grass, palm leaves, branches, hid ...

, built in 1922 by Swiss guides working for the

Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadi ...

, now maintained by the

Alpine Club of Canada The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) is an amateur athletic association with its national office in Canmore, Alberta that has been a focal point for Canadian mountaineering since its founding in 1906. The club was co-founded by Arthur Oliver Wheeler, ...

References

Banff National Park Mountain passes of Alberta Mountain passes of British Columbia Mountains of Yoho National Park {{BritishColumbiaInterior-geo-stub