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Defying description, it is internationally known as one of the most magnificent mountain drives to be found anywhere in the world. Both serene and grippingly beautiful, it is mountain grandeur at its best and closest. It's a panorama of mountain ranges, unbroken but ever changing, sculptured by the massive ice cap that once covered the area. An endless succession of scenic delights that include shimmering alpine lakes with their almost pure turquoise waters, wildflower meadow's with their profusion of color, mighty waterfalls tumbling out of rocky chasms and culminating in the greatest-known accumulation of ice in the Rocky Mountains ... the Columbia Icefields, whose waters flow into three different oceans.