If you ever decide to visit this park, one sight you must not miss (well, one of several, but it's a great one) is Athabasca Falls. This is a place where the wide and gently flowing Athabasca River is rather suddenly compressed between 2 massive rock walls, resulting in a waterfall of impressive and deadly beauty. In 2002 a 21-year-old man climbed over the protective barrier and fell to his death in these falls. As with so many other attempts to describe the features of Jasper National Park, words fail me in my efforts. These falls are jaw-dropping, mesmerizing, frightening, etc. (Note: the photo on the top is the narrow channel into which the water in the photo on the bottom flows.) (Really bad sentence - I apologize!)
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