Yoho National Park

 

Lake O’Hara nestles in the Canadian Rockies at more than 6,600 feet “like an emerald in a bowl of mountains,” wrote paleontologist Charles Walcott in 1911. Generations of artists have put brush to canvas at this lookout, called All Souls Prospect.    Photograph by Peter Essick

Photograph by Peter Essick

Mountain goats are masters of Yoho’s dizzying heights, but the high life is risky even for this sure-footed species: Avalanches, falls, predators, and severe weather kill many goats in their first year.

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