The Weeping Wall is a set of

cliff In geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity. Cliffs are common on co ...

s, approximately 1000 feet high, located at the western base of

Cirrus Mountain Cirrus Mountain is a mountain summit located in the upper North Saskatchewan River valley on the shared boundary between Banff National Park and White Goat Wilderness Area, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. Cirrus Mountain is situated ...

alongside Highway 93 (Icefields Parkway) in northern

Banff National Park Banff National Park is Canada's oldest National Parks of Canada, national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park. Located in Alberta's Rockies, Alberta's Rocky Mountains, west of Calgary, Banff encompasses of mountainous terrain, wi ...

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

, just south of the boundary with

Jasper National Park Jasper National Park is a national park in Alberta, Canada. It is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains spanning . It was established as a national park in 1930 and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. Its locatio ...

In spring and summer, the faces of the cliffs are usually covered with a series of cascading

waterfall A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...

s. In winter, the waterfalls freeze into towering pillars of ice and become a well-known site for ice climbing.Google Image Search showing ice climbing on Weeping Wall
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References

External links

"Weeping Wall" at Canadian Rockies Ice Climbing Encyclopedia
with route descriptions, degrees of difficulty, and equipment needs. Mountains of Banff National Park One-thousanders of Alberta Climbing areas of Canada Waterfalls of Alberta Ice climbing routes {{AlbertaRockies-geo-stub