Bryant continued to explore the far north in 1897, when he organized and led and expedition to the area around Mount Saint Elias on the Alaska-Yukon border. Two years later, he helped to finance George W. Melville's study of oceanic currents in the polar regions. Bryant ventured south in 1904, visiting Popocatépetl, a Mexican volcano, but returned to the north in 1907, when he crossed the Malaspina Glacier, but was unsuccessful in summiting Mount Saint Elias. His mountaineering later took him to other peaks across the globe, including Mount Nantai in Japan, Pidurutalagala in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Mauna Loa in Hawaii. He returned to Labrador in 1912 to explore the area around the Saint-Augustin River. The following year, he was elected president of the Association of American Geographers.