The ACC is committed to providing accessible, current, and accurate information about the forces that affect Canadian mountain places, ecosystems, and communities.
2024 Report highlights
Foreword: Lael Parrott, Zac Robinson and David Hik
Feature Essay
Canada’s Mountainous Marvels: Safeguarding Unique Ecosystems and Species
Knowledge Highlights
The 2024 edition includes essays on the future of Canada’s ski industry in a warming climate, Indigenous cultural burning practices in Northern British Columbia, partnerships between Jasper National Park and Indigenous Nations for caribou recovery efforts, sustainable energy projects at ACC’s backcountry huts, Whitebark Pine recovery, research on life found in deep sea environments, a Canadian preview on the 2025 United Nations International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, the state of permafrost in Canadian mountains, and more.
2023 Report highlights
Foreword: Lael Parrott, Zac Robinson and David Hik
Feature Essay
High Latitude Dust
Knowledge Highlights
The 2023 edition includes essays on Indigenous guiding, balancing visitation and traffic on Moraine Lake Road in Banff National Park, sustainability and the Sea to Sky Gondola, Castleguard Cave, Living Lakes Canada, the Mount Meager Volcano Project, hydrology in the Yukon and more.
2022 Report highlights
Foreword: Lael Parrott, Zac Robinson and David Hik
Feature Essay
A Path to Recovery: The Berg Lake Trail Flood at Mount Robson
Knowledge Highlights
The 2022 edition includes essays on sustainability in Banff, Canadian Mountain Assessment, Gitxsan and Secwepemc resilience to climate change, Banff’s bison reintroduction project, the Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin National Historic Site and more.
2021 Report highlights
Foreword: Lael Parrott, Zac Robinson and David Hik
Feature Essay
Resilient Revelstoke: Four Seasons of COVID-19 in a Canadian Mountain Town by Jill Zacharias and Simon Hunt
Knowledge Highlights
The 2021 edition includes essays on people and mountains (future of guidebooks, cultural monitoring, coal policy), physical mountains (monitoring glaciers) and life in the mountains (ecosystem change, protecting wildlife, changing alpine lakes).
2020 Report highlights
Foreword: Lael Parrott, Zac Robinson and David Hik
Feature Essay
Moving Mountains: Landslides and Volcanoes in a Warming Cryosphere by Brent Ward, Glyn Williams-Jones, and Marten Geertsema
Knowledge Highlights
The 2020 edition includes essays on people and mountains (youth activism, mountain guides and avalanches), physical mountains (underwater and underground geology) and life in the mountains (arctic change, the effects of mining and monitoring mountain biodiversity).
2019 Report highlights
Foreword: Lael Parrott, Zac Robinson and David Hik
Feature Essays
Wildfires: Causes, Consequences, and Coexistence by Lori Daniels
Living and Breathing Change: A Southern Tutchone Perspective on Climate and Research by Tosh Southwick and Kate Ballegooyen
Knowledge Highlights
The 2019 edition includes essays on people and the mountains (mountain rescue, tourism sustainability, huts), life in the mountains (caribou, mammals, salmon, pine beetles, algae) and physical mountains (geology).
2018 Report highlights
Mountains Matter by Lael Parrott, Zac Robinson and David HikFeature
Feature Essay
Changing Glaciers, Changing Rivers by Dan H. Shugar & John J. Clague
Knowledge Highlights
The 2018 edition includes essays on people and mountains (community, mountain culture, ski resorts and avalanches), physical mountains (changing landscapes, glaciers and ice core archives) and life in the mountains (ungulates, birds, treelines and forests).
2011 Report highlights
The 2011 Report is a study of the impact that climate change is having on the alpine environment in southern Alberta and British Columbia. It is a collection of data, recollections and anecdotes of four scientists, twelve mountaineers and one natural historian.
Highlights include notes on glacial recession, snowpacks, monitoring of glaciers, consequences of climate change on water flow, as well as changes to mountaineering routes.