About "Exploration"

Follow Canada’s greatest explorers and adventurers as they travel to the remote corners of the country, deep beneath the Earth’s surface and across oceans, to the tops of mountains and into space.

Photo: Brady Corps/Can Geo Photo Club

Photo: Brady Corps/Can Geo Photo Club
Excerpt from This One Wild Life: A mother-daughter wilderness memoir
Author Angie Abdou’s novel explores parenting and marriage in a summer of unforeseen outcomes and growth

Typical crawling passage on the way to Boon's sump. All diving equipment had to be moved though approximately one kilometre of cave passage is like this, a trip that took 5-6 hours. (Photo: Jason Lavigne)

Photo: Jason Lavigne
Under the icefield and inside the mountain
Go deep below the Columbia Icefield in Banff National Park to “the most inaccessible place in Canada” with the 2020 Castleguard Cave Expedition

The 2019 Flag Expedition — Baffin Paddle/Climb Expedition.

RCGS-funded expeditions take on peaks, rivers and trails across Canada
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

Photo: Marlis Butcher

Photo: Marlis Butcher
Park Bagger: Adventures in the Canadian National Parks
In her quest to visit and get to know the parks, Marlis Butcher canoed, kayaked, mountain biked, backpacked, hiked, snowshoed, snorkelled, and trekked by whatever means of travel she could devise
Everest by sunrise

Everest's North Face in evening light, with the Northeast Ridge climbing up the left-hand side. (Photo: Ralf Dujmovits)

Photo: Ralf Dujmovits
The pull of Everest
A century after a Canadian was instrumental in charting the world's highest peak, a fellow Canadian reflects on the magnetism of Everest

Hamish Harding's point of view from inside the DSV Limiting Factor. (Photo: Action Aviation (Challenger Deep))

Exploration and tourism on the deepest dives
Every dive into the abyss brings back important scientific data and reminds the world of the critical need for protecting the planet’s oceans
Polar bear Hudson Bay coast

A polar bear roams the northwest coast of Hudson Bay. (Photo: Martin Gregus)

Photo: Martin Gregus
Among the bears
Photographer Martin Gregus recounts his summer 2020 expedition to the western coast of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba

Photo: Katie Graham

Photo: Katie Graham
Canyoning down the Spiral Road: First descent of Waffl canyon
Mt. Robson is not so much difficult as dangerous. It is no mountain to trifle with. - Newman Waffl 

A rendering of the Axiom station. (Photo: Axiom Space)

Photo: Axiom Space
Canadian Mark Pathy headed to space on private mission
The investor and philanthropist will be Canada’s 11th astronaut
No boundaries for young explorers
Explorer-In-Residence Jill Heinerth's newest book encourages kids to reach for the stars
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