About "RCGS"
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society is Canada’s Centre for Geography and Exploration, and one of the largest non-profit educational organizations in the nation.
Canadian ultrarunner and RCGS Explorer-in-Residence Ray Zahab is departing on his latest expedition, a winter traverse of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. (Photo: Ray Zahab)
Denise Clarke is an Associate Artist with Calgary’s One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre and the director of its Summer Lab Intensive for emerging artists. (Photo: Trudie Lee)
RCGS CEO John Geiger (far left) presents new copies of the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada to (from left to right) AFN Alberta Regional Chief Marlene Poitras, Trustee Carla Smiley of Edmonton Catholic School District, Elder Betty Letendre, Métis Nation of Alberta President Audrey Poitras, Indigenous Relations Minister Richard Feehan, Education Minister David Eggen and Transportation Minister Brian Mason. (Photo: Amol Dhillon)
Justin Barbour drags his canoe up the Red Wine River in Labrador wearing his PFD. (Photo: Justin Barbour)
George Kourounis stands beside a lava lake inside the Marum crater on Ambrym, a volcanic island in the Vanuatu archipelago, in 2014. To get to the lake, Kourounis and his film crew had to rappel down the side of the crater, which is deeper than the Empire State Building is tall. (Photo courtesy George Kourounis)
Justin Barbour carries his trusty canoe on the Upper McPhadyen River in mid-September during the final leg of his expedition. (Photo: Justin Barbour)
Gordon Osinski, a planetary geologist at Western University in London, Ont., led a 2018 expedition to map parts of Devon Island’s exposed Precambrian Shield — Arctic coastlines that have never been surveyed by on-the-ground teams. (Photo: Gordon Osinski)
There’s more to this building than a pragmatic modernist arrangement of stone, glass and steel overlooking a waterfall, three rivers and two provinces. (Photo: Ben Powless/Canadian Geographic)
Cavers on the Bisaro Plateau near Fernie, B.C. (Photo: Jérôme Genairon)
