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The Abbot Pass hut stood for decades in a rugged col between two iconic peaks, overlooking the limpid turquoise of Banff National Park’s Lake Louise — a destination for alpinists from around the world until the ground melted beneath it and forced its closure. The Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Parks Canada

‘Rotten rock’: Climate change altering the face of Canadian mountaineering

Where reliable glacier routes once lay, only unstable rock remains

Marie-Pier Desharnais is shown atop K2 in this July 2022 handout photo. Marie-Pier Desharnais reached the top of K2 - renowned as one of the toughest mountains on earth - becoming one of the only women in Canada to summit the 8,611-metre monolith on the China-Pakistan border. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Marie-Pier Desharnais

Mountaineer Marie-Pier Desharnais is among only Canadian women to summit K2

Desharnais describes hours of inclines so steep just the tip of her crampons were holding on