Explore: A Canadian Geographic Podcast

Adam Shoalts is an RCGS Explorer-in-Residence and epic solo canoe adventurer and best selling author.

Dr. Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian female astronaut to go to space on board the space shuttle Discovery in 1992.

Jill Heinerth’s dives have also taken her into lava tubes in underwater volcanoes, oases in the Sahara desert and flooded mine shafts. She has set records for the longest and deepest recorded cave dives, including for the longest dive inside an Antarctic iceberg. In 2016, she became the inaugural Explorer-in-Residence of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Ray Zahab has run across some of the world’s hottest deserts, including the Sahara, Gobi, Namib and Atacama. He led a Guinness World Record-breaking trek on foot to the South Pole, as well as expeditions across some of the harshest terrain in the world, including many in the Canadian Arctic.