Elizabeth Binette

Polar Plunge 2025

Support the 2025 Canadian Geographic Polar Plunge!

This year we are joined by notable Canadians, explorers, adventurers and RCGS Fellows. The #CanGeoPolarPlunge will help the Society raise important funding for the rich storytelling and engaging interviews that take place under the banner of Canadian Geographic and the Explore podcast.

Our goal is to raise $50,000! With your help we can continue to expand Canadians’ knowledge of our country’s diverse human and physical landscapes, better preparing them for an uncharted future.

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Keeping it cool

Friday 28th Feb
I first heard of the Be Bold, Go Cold polar plunge for CanGeo and RCGS when Polar Knowledge Canada President Jennifer participated in 2023. She plunged outside of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. 

Then, the following year, Susan Eaton of Sea Women Expeditions tagged POLAR while she was seeking donations. About 3 days before the 2024 plunge, I built up the courage and registered. It was my first plunge, and I'm not exactly fond of the cold!

It was thrilling! Between meeting some of the CanGeo greats, other participants (whom I've stayed in touch with all year!), and actually jumping in to the freezing lake, I had the best experience!

So here I am, willing to freeze my butt off another year for the Explore Podcast and the "benefits" of the cold!

Thank you to my Sponsors

$111.11

Andre Binette

Mieux vaut toi que moi! 😁. Go girl!!!

$106

Scott Hamilton

Yay swimming

$53

Darragh Family

Sorry to miss all the fun - Hope it wasn't too cold! (brr)

$53

Juliet Hamilton

Brrrrr. You go, girl!

$53

Sheila Tucker

You are doing it again, brave person that you are. Brrrrr

$53

Neil Hamilton

Rather you than me!

$50

Jenn Thornhill Verma

Go Eli! Do a second jump for me :)

$50

Nicole Corkum

$26.50

Robert Krug

$26.50

Astrid Delisle

Yikes! C'est frette de chez frette!

$26.50

Dan

I hope you will have lots of warm towels and blankets for when you’re done! Good luck!

$26.50

Daniel Hamilton

Sounds awful

$26.50

Douglas Hux

$25

Elizabeth Binette