No. 21 – Helen Sovdat

Helen Sovdat is one of Canada’s finest mountain guides. Her accomplishments as a climber and skier are stunning. She has pioneered long traverses along the crest of the Coast Mountains. She has stood on nearly all of the peaks in the Canadian Rockies that exceed 11,000 feet (3,353m). She has climbed in the high ranges of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Asia, she has scaled some of the world’s highest mountains: Ama Dablam, Cho Oyu, and Manaslu. Many of these adventures were with members of her loyal legion of clients.

No. 22 – Chic Scott

Chic Scott is a man of unconventional firsts. The first Canadian to summit a Himalayan peak, the first Canadian to guide in the European Alps, and he was part of the first team to climb Mount Assiniboine in winter. He is also a local mentor, historian and ski pioneer who has spent his whole life touching the lives of all those who call the Rockies home.

No. 23 – Peter Amann

To those who’ve looked up at Jasper National Park’s rock and ice culture in the past four decades, Peter Amann’s good natured promenade to the coronet of Canadian Rockies alpinism has not been a surprise. For more than 35 years, Amann has been a stalwart guide, teacher and mentor to hundreds of aspiring climbers, avalanche professionals and Alpine Club of Canada members.

No. 24 – Bernadette McDonald

From accomplished concert pianist to intrepid backcountry adventurer to world-respected mountain film festival director to award winning author (many times over), Bernadette McDonald has led a life marked by hard work, dedication, careful attention to detail and well-earned accolades

No. 25 – John Baldwin

Known affectionately to his friends as the King of the Coast Range, John Baldwin has spent his life in a quest to experience the west coast wilderness. Since his teenage years he has explored the rugged Coast Mountain Range, climbing 700 peaks, many of them first ascents, and making perhaps one hundred multi-week, long distance forays across the icefields and along the ridges of what is one of the last true wilderness areas on earth.

No. 26 – Cyril Shokoples

There are few today active in the mountain community who haven’t learned something from this extraordinary guide and teacher. Whether it’s an ACC national mountain leadership course or a wilderness first aid course, a rope-rescue course or an avalanche course, a backcountry skiing course or a climbing course, Cyril teaches them all, and more. In this capacity, always with distinctive exuberance, he has helped and mentored along so many amateurs and guides alike.

No. 27 – Dan Verrall

Dan Verrall has been a great friend and supporter of The Alpine Club of Canada for almost fifty years now. He and his wife Val were custodians of the Canmore Clubhouse and for almost a decade, he and Val and their daughters Jasmine and Silene, welcomed members and guests and made the clubhouse a warm and special place.