Each year, millions of people venture to the Canadian Rockies, home to national parks like

Banff and Jasper, and wildlife like the boss, the famous grizzly that dominates Bow Valley,

and gray wolves whose howls echo across Lake Louise.

But most of the photos you see of this area are of the mountains themselves.

Snow-covered peaks tower above

sparkling glacial blue lakes. Walls of rock looming dramatically over the highway are some of the

most photograph peaks in all of North America. The ice line parkway, the route that winds about

140 miles through the heart of it all, is often crowned the world's most scenic.

And an entire outdoor community, economy, and culture has sprung up out of the belief

that there's no place you'd rather be than on top of those mountains.

Not just the Rockies, but mountains anywhere.

Online or outside, you're bombarded by Gortex fashion,

trail running shoes, summit selfies, freeze-dried food, climbing guides, gondola rides,

Naljean pride, all trails review, ultra-light gear, and summit beers, all seemingly poking and

prodding and promising that you could be no happier in life than you would be at the top of a mountain.

And maybe they're right.

When you reach a mountain top, outside noise tends to fade away.

You breathe deeper, see further, and although you cannot stay, you carry that feeling of the moment back down the mountain with you.

At least that's how it normally works. But back in 1903, for one unlucky town in what is now Alberta, the mountaintop came down to them.

Welcome to National Park After Dark.

Music National Park after dark. I'm personally happiest on top of a mountain.

Ever, period, full stop. I'm not. I'll just say that right now. It's pretty, it's up there. It's up there. Top five. Yeah. Hey, everyone. This is National Park After Dark and this voice right now is Danielle. And I'm Cassie. And we won a Webby. We did. You guys voted for us and we won. Didn't we win two? We won two webbies. Yeah, excuse me. It was two. Yeah, two Webbies. You guys helped us out hard because you voted for us and we won the People's Choice Webby. But then we also won just the Webby Award in the history podcasting section where the judges picked us to be the winners, which is really exciting.

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