Lake Louise, Hotel and Climbers

Fairmount Hotel, Lake Louise, Alberta

Lake Louise is one of the most iconic locations within Banff National Park. At one end of the lake is the expensive Fairmount Chateau Lake Louise hotel and at the other, though high above the level of the lake, a glacier. Most photos that you will have seen are from the far end of the lake looking back towards the hotel which once had a more fairytale-Alpen facade, or from high on the mountain behind the hotel looking across the lake.

We didn’t climb the mountain, but we did walk along one side of the lake to the far shore and back. These first three photos all incorporate the hotel. Other views in subsequent posts.

Banff National Park: Lake Louise and the hotel.

Banff, Lake Louise, in Black and White

At the business end of Lake Louise are a number of memorial tributes to famous and unfortunate climbers who were attracted to this area at the end of the 19th Century and in the first decades of the 20th Century.

Philip S Abbott, who fell to his death in 1895

Tribute to Georgia Cromwell at Lake Louise