_Summit of Mount Resplendant, 11,173 feet above the Sea_ 158 _Climbing Among the Seracs_ 164 _Jasper Lake_ 170 _Fiddle Creek Canyon_ 176 _Jack Lake_ 184 _Maligne Lake_ 184 _Breaking Camp in the Mountains_ 190 _Making a Trail through Fallen Timber_ 190 _The Purple Crags of Roche Miette_ (in colours) 200 _Mount Robson, from the Grand Fork_ 204 _Emperor Falls_ 208 _Mount Robson, from the Northeast_ 214 _Moose River Falls_ 218 _Swimming the Athabaska_ 224 _Making Camp_ 224 MAPS _Rocky Mountains Park, Banff Section_ 235 _Rocky Mountains Park, Lake Louise Section_ 236 _Yoho Park_ 237 _Jasper Park_ 238 _Glacier Park_ 239 _Robson Park_ 239 I THE LURE OF THE MOUNTAINS What is the peculiar charm of that mighty, snow-capped sea of mountains, whose stupendous waves tossed far into the heavens seem ever about to overwhelm the level wheat-fields of Western Canada? The lure of the mountains defies analysis, but it is surely there with its irresistible appeal to all in whom the spirit of romance is not quite dead. It stirs the blood strangely when, far out on the plains of Alberta, you get your first glimpse of the Canadian Alps--a line of white, glittering peaks just above the horizon, infinitely remote and ethereal, something altogether apart from the prosaic world about you of grain and cattle, neat farm-house and unsightly elevator.