‘Canada’s greatest living explorer’ takes to Arctic – alone – for Canada150
Mac grad and adventurer Adam Shoalts is in Canada’s far north again, spending five months hiking and canoeing across the Arctic to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary – and he’s doing it all by himself.
Shoalts, who holds a master’s degree in History from McMaster, is in the midst of a 4,000km trek from the Canadian border with Alaska to the shores of Hudson Bay.
The trip will take him across some of Canada’s toughest terrain: rocky mountains, raging rivers, barren tundra, subarctic forest and soggy muskeg.
And that’s not including the black flies and mosquitoes, which present their own set of challenges.
It’s not the first time Shoalts, who’s working on his PhD at McMaster, has travelled Canada’s north, nor the first time he’s done so alone. Shoalts is an experienced explorer whose adventures include the mapping of previously unexplored places, like the Hudson Bay lowlands’ Again River.
