Upcoming and Past Expeditions

Find out more about each explorer 2023
2023 Grantees

Discover more about each of our 2023 Grantees and the expeditions that took place throughout the year. 

2023 Expedition Grantees
Jill Heinerth
A year's worth of exciting expeditions 2022
2022 Grantees

A behind-the-scenes look at the adventures and discoveries of the passionate explorers funded by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

2022 Grantees
WOMEN'S EXPEDITION, PASCALE MARCEAU 2021
Mt. Lucania

This two-person team will attempt to be the first all-female team to climb Mt. Lucania, Canada’s third tallest peak (at 5226 m high), nestled in the Yukon’s Kluane National Park and Reserve.

Mt. Lucania 2020
FLAG EXPEDITION, ALISON CRISCITIELLO AND ZAC ROBINSON 2021
Mount Logan Ice Expedition

Mount Logan’s height, its sheer mass, its northern latitude and coastal proximity, its location in the southwestern Yukon — all make the iconic peak an important case study for what climate scientists have now termed “elevational-depende...

Mount Logan Ice Expedition
MAJOR GRANT, DAVID GREENE 2019
Boreal to Barren Lands: Traversing Labrador

The team traversed 840 kilometres of the Labrador and Quebec interior — from west to east, via five rivers, over the course of 35 days, during the summer of 2019.

Boreal to Barren Lands: Traversing Labrador
MAJOR GRANT, ROBIN BEECH 2019
Jawdrop Cave

This project explored and recorded cave features of the alpine karst landscape in the Badshot Range of British Columbia’s West Kootenays including the spectacular Jawdrop Cave.

Jawdrop Cave
Women's Grant, Melanie Vogel 2019
Between Sunsets: A Woman's Solo Venture Across Canada

On June 2nd, 2017, Melanie Vogel set out to solo thru-hike 18,000 kilometres across Canada from the Atlantic to the Arctic to the Pacific Ocean on the Great Trail.

Between Sunsets: A Woman’s Solo Venture Across Canada
Expedition of the Year 2019
The Complete Columbias Traverse

The Complete Columbias Traverse is a 750 kilometre long ski traverse through the Columbia Mountains.

The Complete Columbias Traverse
Expedition of the Year 2020
The Thelon Esker Hike

The Thelon Esker Hike is a solo hike by a Northwest Territories resident of the entire length of North America’s longest esker which stretches approximately 700 kilometres across the tundra of the Northwest Territories.

The Thelon Esker Hike