Discover how the need for capital projects to keep our huts functioning — and even to add huts to our inventory in the mountains — creates a unique set of challenges.
Learn about our most recent submission to the government of BC as The Alpine Club of Canada continues to take a hard line against development of an all-season ski resort in the Jumbo Valley.
Learn from Connor Young, a climber who fell from the southwest ridge of Mount Aspiring while on a climbing trip in New Zealand, as he reflects on the accident a year later.
View a photo gallery of the building of the ACC’s first hut on Vancouver Island. The 12-person hut is located 5040 Peak, 35km west of the City of Port Alberni. More than 30 volunteers joined for the final weekend of construction for the year.
We are proud to support this year's winner of the ACC Environment Grant; the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS - Northern Alberta Chapter) for their ongoing caribou conservation work in northern Alberta.
We'd like to say congratulations to all of this year's winners and especially those artists and applicants we sponsored directly, featured below. Now that's $10,000 well spent!
The ACC team spent five days this summer doing repairs and maintenance at the Great Cairn hut in the northern Selkirks. Construction projects in the alpine often require our team to use creative problem solving, and we had plenty of challenges on our hands with this one.
In August 2017, the ACC maintenance team spent nine long days at the Fairy Meadow Hut renovating the kitchen, staining exterior structures and giving the hut a much needed deep clean.