This summer Shira Biner, Amanda Bischke, Noah Besen and James Klemmensen traveled to the Arctic for their first time and had the adventure of a lifetime, thanks in part to the Jen Higgins Grant for Young Women.
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All but seven of the peaks over 6,000 feet are in Strathcona Provincial Park, the first provincial park in BC, located in the centre of Vancouver Island. Most of the peaks can be climbed directly from highways and on a three-to-five-day trip, multiple summits can often be bagged.
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Après 45 minutes passées sur la route de service de Blaeberry Forest, près de Golden, notre convoi ralentit pour s'arrêter dans une clairière. Les lourdes averses de la nuit ont rempli la vallée d'un brouillard emmêlé d'une fumée persistante à la suite d'un été d'intenses incendies forestiers.
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Reflections on an adventurous week up at the 2021 General Mountaineering Camp at Mummery Glacier.
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Is there any better way to spend your honeymoon than by boating around the Antarctic Peninsula? Probably not. ACC Ambassador Nancy Hansen and high-altitude veteran Ralf Dujmovits venture to the deep South to climb, ski and sneak in a few extra activities, enjoying the type of honeymoon that we would totally expect from the adventurous couple.
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Is there any better way to spend your honeymoon than by boating around the Antarctic Peninsula? Probably not. ACC Ambassador Nancy Hansen and high-altitude veteran Ralf Dujmovits venture to the deep South to climb, ski and sneak in a few extra activities, enjoying the type of honeymoon that we would totally expect from the adventurous couple.
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Get an inside look at some of the physical and personal challenges Hannah Preston and Michelle Kadatz faced while in the mountains of Patagonia on their trip co-sponsored by the ACC's Jen Higgins Grant for Young Women.
Climbing | Grants & Awards | Great Adventures
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A photo gallery from Hannah Preston and Michelle Kadatz's trip to Patagonia in the winter of 2018 to attempt to climb Cerro Torre or Cerro Fitz Roy.'
Climbing | Grants & Awards | Great Adventures
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The recipients of the 2017 Jen Higgins Award set out to complete the first all-female descent (third descent ever) of the Klinaklini Canyon.
Grants & Awards | Great Adventures
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Long-time ACC Ambassador Nancy Hansen writes here about some choice long rock routes that she's been on this summer with her partner Ralf Dujmovits.
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A message from Sean Isaac, editor of the Canadian Alpine Journal, reflecting upon the evolution of the CAJ as we reach our 100th issue of the publication.
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The Vancouver Island section challenged themselves to reach new heights by climbing 150 summits celebration of Canada 150. Their story below.
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A feature on the many ways the ACC celebrated Canada 150 in the Yukon this year.
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Relatively little known to Canadians but very popular with Texans, this small area of northern Mexico boasts over 600 sport routes many of them multi-pitch climbs including the longest climb in North America, The Time Wave Zero.
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Behind the scenes as Nancy Hansen and her partner German alpinist Ralf Dujmovits climb the south-west ridge of Cholatse (6,440m/21,123') from April 7 to 14, 2017.
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Nancy Hansen is an Alpine Club of Canada Ambassador who has recently returned to Nepal to attempt a summit of Cholatse with her partner Ralf Dujmovits.
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I had felt stuck for the past year. Then, in the fall of 2015 an idea popped into my head - I was going to travel to Iceland. Not only that, I wanted to hike across the entire country, coast to coast, by myself.
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This trip report from the Saskatchewan Section gives a great look at the glorious Canadian tradition of the Spring Road Trip — the drive south in search of (trad and sport) adventures and warm rock in the hopes of jumpstarting the climbing season. This is why our members join local sections.
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