Lake O'Hara (B.C.)

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The item is a travelogue film. "'Mountain climbing with all its thrills near Lake O'Hara in Yoho National Park, British Columbia.' The film begins on a busy street in Toronto with cars and a Yonge Street streetcar contending with traffic, and pedestrians during rush hour. It then cuts to a mountain in the Rockies and Lake O'Hara. A man is looking over the rear platform of a train. Lake O'Hara with a mountain at the end. A party of four have decided to take a mountain holiday and they set off for some climbing, passing across alpine meadows, through creeks, and up and down all manner of very lovely mountainous terrain with snowy peaks in the [background]. They climb past the "Seven Sisters" waterfalls. Coming to an alpine lake, they begin the ascent to the summit, using ropes and picks and traversing some tricky rock faces. They reach snow and use their ropes to cross an abyss. Near the top they reach the "Devil's Window" and, finally, the summit. Going back down is ,just as treacherous. They slide or 'glissade' down a mile-long snow bank. The last scene shows Lake O'Hara with a rowboat moving toward the camera across a still surface." (Colin Browne)

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