Hector Glacier

Hector Glacier lies on the north slope of Mount Hector in Banff National Park, Alberta, extending about 3 kilometers northward. It shares its name with Mount Hector and nearby Hector Lake, all named for early naturalist James Hector. The glacier is most notable for a major ice fall in 1938, when a large mass broke away and spread across the valley below. Ice piled up to 60 meters thick and destroyed everything in its path. That disaster is recorded as only the second known glacier hazard documented in the Canadian Rockies.

Alberta · Canada