Overview
Alberta is a province of Canada. With an estimated population of 4,067,175 people as of the ... Alberta is bordered by the provinces of British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S.
Description
Columbia Icefield, largest ice field in the Rocky Mountains, astride the British Columbia–Alberta border, Canada. Lying partially within Jasper National Park, it is one of the most accessible expanses of glacial ice in North America. It forms a high-elevation ice cap on a flat-lying plateau that has been severely truncated by erosion to form a huge massif. The glacial area extends between the summits of Mount Columbia (12,294 feet [3,747 meters]) on the west and Mount Athabasca (11,452 feet [3,491 meters]) on the east.