Abbot Pass lies between Mount Lefroy and Mount Victoria in the divide between the valleys of Lake O’Hara and Lake Louise. It was named for Phillip Stanley Abbot who died in 1896 in an attempt to climb Mount Lefroy with Charles Fay Charles Thompson and George T. Little.Abbot Pass has a stone hut built in 1922 by Swiss guides working for the Canadian Pacific Railway now maintained by the Alpine Club of Canada.
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Canada
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British Columbia Interior
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Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Banff National Park, Yoho National Park
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