Canada
Kluane National Park
Canada's highest peak guards the largest non-polar ice field on Earth, and almost no one comes.
Mount Logan rises 5,959 metres above Kluane National Park — the highest point in Canada, and fewer people have reached its summit than have climbed Everest. Below it, the St. Elias icefields spread in every direction, the largest non-polar ice mass on Earth.
Kluane National Park in the Yukon protects a landscape of extremes — Canada's highest mountains, its largest glaciers, and some of its most remote wilderness. The park's icefields and peaks are so vast that flightseeing tours reveal crevasse fields and glacial rivers invisible from any ground-level vantage point. Grizzly bears, Dall sheep, and golden eagles occupy a landscape where you can hike for days without crossing a trail. The Alsek River, flowing from the icefields to the Pacific, is one of the world's elite multi-day whitewater routes, passing through landscapes no road can reach. The Kluane First Nation has lived in the region for thousands of years, and their cultural history is woven into the park's interpretation.
Solo
Kluane is for the solo traveller who wants to feel genuinely alone in a vast landscape. Multi-day backcountry hiking routes pass through grizzly country with no other humans in sight.
Friends
A group expedition — whether a flightseeing tour over the icefields, a multi-day Alsek River raft trip, or a backcountry hiking traverse — delivers shared experiences at a scale that's difficult to process.
- Mount Logan at 5,959 metres is the highest peak in Canada, and fewer people have summited it than Everest.
- The St. Elias icefields inside the park form the largest non-polar ice mass on Earth.
- Grizzly bears, Dall sheep, and golden eagles occupy a landscape so vast you can hike for days without crossing a trail.
- Flightseeing tours over the icefields reveal crevasse fields and glacial rivers that no ground-level view can match.
Trail mix and freeze-dried meals taste profound when surrounded by ice fields and silence.
Wild berry bannock cooked by Southern Tutchone guides at the edge of the ice.
The one restaurant in Haines Junction serves elk stew that fuels a week in the backcountry.
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