Series: 52 Episodes

Program Length: half-hour (23:18 min)

Program Description:

Perched high in the Canadian Rockies, these oldest of Canadian national parks - famous for dramatic, jagged peaks and aquamarine lakes - still have the drawing power they have had for over a century. Naturalist Sue Ellen Fast takes a walk on the Athabaska Glacier that is fed by the gigantic Columbia Icefield at the top of the world. She hikes to Canada's highest forest to find out how the toughest of the tough trees and plants survive. She discovers the lake which is featured on Canada's twenty dollar bill, and she has a conversation with the small mammal farmers of the mountains - the pikas - and gets a close-up view of a grizzly and some long-horn sheep.