Bruce Grierson

Toronto, Ontario // Age: 28 Who is this guy in the headlamp and hip waders disappearing into a manhole in the middle of Toronto? And what’s he up to? In a word, Michael Cook is “draining.” That is, he’s heading down to...

Ottawa, Ontario // Age: 29 It takes chutzpah to call yourself “Canada’s foremost adventure guide” when you’re not yet 30 years old. But the raised eyebrows usually start coming down when people learn that Jean-François...

You can ask Todd Reichert and Cameron Robertson how they did it. How’d they make the first-ever human-powered ornithopter—a plane that flies like a bird? The two University of Toronto engineering grad students will even tell...

Vancouver, B.C. // Age: 29 Call him the Kid Who Saved The Bears. Except he’s not a kid anymore, and the bears—the famed white kermode or “spirit” bears of northwestern B.C., along with their temperate rainforest...

Regina, Saskatchewan // Age: 17 Sounds like something you’d order at Starbucks: “Backside triple cork 1440.” In fact, it’s a snowboard trick—arguably the snowboard trick. Four complete revolutions, with some other...

Edmonton, Alberta  // Age: 22 It shouldn’t surprise Paula Findlay that she has blossomed—with back-to-back victories in World Championship Series races in her first full season of competition—into one of the planet’s...

On June 9, Pascal Coudé, a 40-year-old skydiver from Quebec City, rode a de Havilland Twin Otter utility plane to 18,000 feet over the farm country north of Montreal, and dove out. It was a nice bright day for an aerial...

"Ozzie! Ozzie! Ozzie! Oy! Oy! Oy!" The chant filled the air at Moose's Down Under, an Australian-themed restaurant in downtown Vancouver. It was day two of the Winter Olympics. The place was packed with expat Aussies. They wore...

The first thing I noticed about Norm Winter, the mountain guide I'd hired to help a group of us reach the summit of Mount Baker in the U.S. Cascades, was his strange calm. Norm was a B.C. boy, lanky as a cowboy, with a little...

A huge—and I mean huge—black bear walked right past the car as I was loading my infant daughter into the back seat. It was in no particular hurry. It had emerged from the forest and was cutting through our driveway en route to...