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Exploring Skoki
Travelling through Alberta’s storied mountaineering and ski-touring past and present
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Travelling through Alberta’s storied mountaineering and ski-touring past and present
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Best places in Alberta to take a hike
Places
In Banff National Park, Alberta, as in protected areas across the country, managers find it difficult to balance the desire of people to experience wilderness with an imperative to conserve it
Travel
Six ways to explore these icy wonders
Exploration
Natalia Martinez was airlifted to safety at 10:30 p.m. Thursday
People & Culture
Hobnails and Hemp Rope documents the Bugaboo Spire Centennial Climb, a 2016 RCGS flag expedition paying homage to Austrian-Canadian mountaineer Conrad Kain
Exploration
Although our expedition came to an early end this year, it was still a successful journey of exploratory learning in one of the most extreme environments in Canada
Exploration
We came to retrace an ancestor’s 1905 map-making expedition of the Peel River watershed. We left with a new-found appreciation of what this ancient land means to the people who live there.
Exploration
Lonnie Dupre and Pascale Marceau return from Mount Steele after "gear snafu"
Environment
A new report by Alpine Club of Canada scientists and other experts highlights worrying trends in Canada’s mountain ecosystems
Environment
Two marine biologists offer a glimpse of life at the bottom of the ocean during 2018, 2019 and 2020 seamount expeditions
Environment
The Alpine Club of Canada covers everything from wildfires to watermelon snow in its recently published annual report on Canada's alpine environments
Travel
Camaraderie, conversation and conservation are key at the Alpine Club of Canada’s annual General Mountaineering Camp
Travel
Whistler is world-renowned for its powder, but the picturesque mountain village has plenty going on off the slopes as well
Travel
Leslie Anthony shares the best of the big hills
Travel
With the majestic Bugaboo Spires as your backdrop, this August workshop with Canadian Mountain Holidays will allow you to create images that have a purpose
Travel
Hitting the trails with the Stowe Mountain Biking Club
Travel
Testing Columbia Sportswear's newest gear in the birthplace of mountain climbing
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
People & Culture
It was the third attempt at Canada’s third highest peak for the RCGS-funded team
People & Culture
People & Culture
Uprooted repeatedly by development projects, the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree wandered boreal Quebec for 70 years before finding a permanent home. For some, the journey continues.
People & Culture
How does a Canadian wind up wandering an ancient tea-trading route through the Himalayas? We talk to 'Tea Explorer' Jeff Fuchs about his documentary film and his ongoing journey to unlock the secrets of the leaf.
People & Culture
Whether diving in Antarctic waters, making scientific breakthroughs or summiting Everest, these remarkable women are making their mark on Canada and the world.
Wildlife
With millions of photos taken globally each day on smartphones, researchers have found they may also contain important ecological clues about our rapidly changing planet
Wildlife
The South Selkirk mountain caribou herd currently numbers just 11 animals
Wildlife
Canadian researcher discovers how mountain goats survived glaciers
Wildlife
30-year deal took two years to finalize
Exploration
Exploration
Exploration
History
Exploration
Exploration
History
Mary Vaux’s groundbreaking 19th-century study of B.C.’s Illecillewaet Glacier created an invaluable record of the glacier’s recession
History
Queen Elizabeth II’s famous horse, Burmese, is a symbol of the enduring ties between the Crown and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
History
The journey a master mountaineer described “one of the strangest ventures of my life.”
History
A French-born Canadian changed the world of mapping by photographing the Rockies
Environment
To fully understand our national identity, we must consider Canada’s geology as well as its geography
History
From noble mountains to local elementary schools, the Queen’s reign and the bonds she’s forged with Canadians are reflected across the map of Canada
Travel
Canadian Geographic's creative director tests Nikon's latest full-frame model on a heli-hiking experience with Canadian Mountain Holidays
Exploration
Expert cave diver and RCGS Explorer-in-Residence Jill Heinerth explains the risks and challenges of rescuing a boys’ soccer team trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand
Exploration
Laval St. Germain summited Antarctica’s Mount Vinson on Dec. 31, meaning he has now climbed the highest peaks on every continent
Mapping
Cartographic highlights from Canadian Geographic’s 2018 issues
People & Culture
From putting the “Canada” back in an iconic species’ name to studying a massive iceberg-calving Antarctic iceshelf, see what just a few of the RCGS’s Fellows have been working on in 2018
Exploration
From coast to coast to coast and into the ocean as well, eight grants expand our understanding of Canada
Travel
Thirty-five years after North America’s most infamous volcano erupted, only one organization is allowed to lead you into its crater
Travel
Can Geo staff test out a cold-weather sleeping bag and camp quilt
Travel
A glimpse into the world of heli-hiking in B.C.’s Bugaboo Mountains, some of the most inaccessible peaks on Earth
Travel
Alex Hutchinson goes inside the friendly rivalry between two titans of the Montreal-style bagel to figure out the secret of the doughy snack's allure
Travel
Hitting the backcountry slopes in Newfoundland
Travel
A super-lightweight, versatile tent designed with the backcountry hiker in mind
Travel
From the beauty of Davis Mountains State Park to the legacy of Big Bend National Park, Javier Frutos captures the parks of the Lone Star state
Travel
British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley is a chiller thriller for skiers of all stripes
Travel
Travel
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Travel
Environment
The Environment and Climate Change minister shares insights from her recent tour of Labrador's Nunatsiavut region and Torngat Mountains National Park
Exploration
2022 is the International Year of Caves and Karst. Here’s why you should care about the hidden worlds beneath our feet.
Mapping
A case decided this week by the Supreme Court of British Columbia was, in essence, all about geography
Mapping
While its pyramid peak is almost instantly recognizable, Mount Assiniboine is also an excellent example of the general characteristics of all Canadian mountains
Environment
As is often the case, it comes down to location, location, location
Environment
RCGS research grantee Erin Hanson provides context to the federal government's approval of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project that will traverse Tsleil-Waututh Nation territory in Vancouver
Environment
An interview with Natural Resources Canada Minister Seamus O’Regan on the federal government’s recent decision
Environment
Wayne Sawchuk's latest book recounts his transformation from a logger and trapper into an ardent conservationist
Environment
The former astronaut also happens to be an amazing photographer, and is using her talents to raise interest in Canada's wild spaces
People & Culture
People & Culture
Award recipients honoured in the first virtual Annual General Meeting and Fellows Show.
People & Culture
People & Culture
People & Culture
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
Science & Tech
Wildlife
Could this video be more Canadian?
Kids
Highlights from day two of Canada’s Coolest School Trip
Exploration
Caving: The ultimate underground sport
Exploration
Few RCGS-funded expeditions took place last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but many explorers found a way to safely head afield in 2021
Kids
Highlights from day one of Canada’s Coolest School Trip 2019
Exploration
Go deep below the Columbia Icefield in Banff National Park to “the most inaccessible place in Canada” with the 2020 Castleguard Cave Expedition
History
A century after Conrad Kain's historic ascent of Bugaboo Spire, an expedition aims to recreate his 1916 climb.