Adam Shoalts paddling through a canyon in the NWT.
Adam Shoalts hiking.
Overlooking the Athabasca Pass.
Making a birch bark canoe.
The finished product.
Homemade canoe made by Adam and Mark Shoalts.
Red fox.
Adam Shoalts on an expedition 2019.
Adam Shoalts in the Canadian Arctic 2019.
Wandering the arctic tundra
Bear track, 2013.
Lining
Grizzly tracks.
Muskox
Hiking beneath waterfalls in the Rockies.
Solo canoeing
Into the wild
Wolf in the forest.
Breaking through ice.
Caribou swimming across the river.
Adam Shoalts snowshoeing
Courtesy Alone Across the Arctic.
Portaging
Seeking open water
Winter camping
Solitude.
Wilderness.
Isolated rivers.
Adam Shoalts ice floes 2017.
Wading upriver.
Grizzly Tracks.
Eerie mist on a wilderness lake.
Adam Shoalts
Poling up the Mackenzie
Moose
Snowshoeing.
Courtesy Alone Across the Arctic.
Muskox skeleton.
Adam Shoalts paddling 2013.
Black bear
Adam Shoalts 2016
Muskox
Caribou family
Moose.
Crossing paths with mule deer.
Courtesy Alone Across the Arctic.
Shoalts with the flag of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, on his solo journey to map the Again River.
Winter camping
Shoalts hiking, 2015.
Sun shines through the canopy in the Ecuadorian Amazon, 2011. Photo by Adam Shoalts.
Into the swamp.
Red-tailed boa, scientific name, boa constrictor constrictor. Photograph by Adam Shoalts in the Ecuadorian Amazon. 2011.
Taking some notes in the field.
Caribou
Shoalts running some rapids.
Grizzly bear
Expedition 2019
Adam Shoalts with the Royal Canadian Geographical Society flag at the mouth of the nameless river he set off to explore (2011).
When the current is too strong and shallow to paddle up, one must find other ways to make headway. July 2008.
Adam Shoalts, at the summit.
Into the Unknown, 2011.
Shoalts canoeing
Travis Hill and Shoalts posing with the flag of the Six Nations, with the nameless river they explored behind them. 2014.
Adam Shoalts in the La Cloche Mountains, winter 2010.
Caribou.
Crossing a river, 2004.
Exploring is hard work. July 2008.
Dragging a heavily laden canoe through endless kilometres of tangled alder bushes and waste-deep leech-infested water is all in a day’s work for a modern-day explorer. (2008 Hudson Bay Lowlands.)
Amazon jungle.
Shoalts beneath a waterfall, on his solo expedition, 2013.
Adam Shoalts scouting the way ahead.
Shoalts, flag of the Explorer’s Club.
Camp in the High Arctic, 2014.
Adam Shoalts
Travis Hill with the skull of a musk-ox. 2014.
Excavating an ancient Mayan site in the jungles of Belize, 2014.
