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国产吃瓜黑料's guide to the coolest trips and the world's top new adventure travel spots.
国产吃瓜黑料's guide to the 95 coolest trips, the world's top new adventure travel spots, and the ten accessories you can't go without.
Damned with us and damned without us, the Galápagos continue to attract hordes of nature-loving visitors. But whether you're drawn by the majesty of Darwin's discoveries or mesmerized by the brutal spectacle of survival, remember this: Evolution happens.
鈥淭inku is perfect, like the lightning. When it kills you, it kills you; when you have to die, you die. He who falls, let the earth be the one to complain.鈥
Deep in the seething, fecund Amazon jungle, a seeker finds wisdom, beauty, exciting new recipes, and inexhaustible armadas of biting insects. O Sting, where is they death?
Sleep on ground. Fight angry pigs. Eat very special sausage. Tramp across land without vowels. Go east, American friend, and discover why hordes of weekend hobos, lawmen, cowboys, and Indians are searching for the Wild and Crazy West in the woods of the Czech Republic.
Pancho Villa lives! Viva high adventure down in Mexico's Copper Canyon.
The skinny on rough-hewn adventure in the long, tall land that has it all: from deserts and salt beds to glaciers and geysers.
North of Havana is a fantasy world of mangrove-lined cays and green water flashing with tropical fish鈥攑erfect sea-kayaking country. But the line between what's permissible and what's not in Castro's kingdom falls in a gray area, and comings and goings by water always mean trouble.
The Bighorn Mountains are still one of Wyoming's great wild redoubts
The Bighorn Mountains are still one of Wyoming's great wild redoubts
They fly into lands of hunger and madness, dispensing food while warlords dispense terror from the barrel of a gun. They trade safety and comfort for the sharp edge of altruism, predictable careers for the daily bread of death and disease. They're relief workers on the front lines鈥攁nd once they're hooked, they can never go home again.
Rejected鈥搕wice!鈥揵y the people behind the phony "reality-based" TV adventure show, our vengeful writer pays a surprise visit to Survivor's Island shoot to wreak some authentic havoc.
New-school nomads pedal the singletrack of the ancients on the first mountain-biking trip to northern Mongolia
Take three travelers, a nation of Buddhists, and one unfortunate rodent. Add a forbidden journey and a dark childhood secret, and you could have the time of your lives.
Australia's full of things waiting to sting, prong, chomp, drown, or lay you out with a toxic nip. People go missing there all the time. But the beer is cold. The sun mostly shines. And the author figures if he can remember to never leave the asphalt, he just might make it back alive.
In the gentrifying mountain village of Telluride, a band of local adventure addicts is preaching the gospel of neo-hippie purity in an upstart 'zine called Mountainfreak. Can these goddess-worshipping ski bums stay true to their vert' and manage to run a business at the same time?
According to legend, New Zealand's South Island was formed when the dawn froze 150 shipwrecked gods into mountains. There are worse places to spend eternity.
According to legend, New Zealand's South Island was formed when the dawn froze 150 shipwrecked gods into mountains. There are worse places to spend eternity.
Pristine beaches, bioluminescent bays, angelfish-mobbed coral, and incoming artillery fire
You’re poised to launch off a cornice at 9,000 feet in British Columbia’s coast range. Beckoning below is a stadium-sized bowl of fresh powder atop an impressive base. You push off and cut a series of perfect turns, hearing nothing but the swish of your own skis鈥攗ntil the mountain announces…
Exploring the oldest protected rainforest, the soft coral reefs, and the all-night f锚tes of the Caribbean's farthest reaches
THE STARTING POINT: What follows are six elemental landscapes—forest, desert, inland waterfront, prairie, mountain, and coast—featuring 18 blissfully unsullied locales, from Alaska to Florida, Arizona to Maine. Clear into the next state: The view from North Carolina, near the town of Tyron, into South Carolina. THE COST: Our survey…
Way, way out in the land of powder, the cornices are steeper, the trails go deeper, and the crowds are nonexistent. Where is this mythical kingdom, you ask? Right here in North America.
On a sunny day in 1953, a tall young New Zealander named Edmund Hillary became the first human to stand atop the world's highest mountain鈥攁nd, thereafter, a paragon of grace and bonhomie for explorers who would follow.
It may be cold, it may be impossibly vast and empty, but in its first hours of existence, Canada's newborn Inuit territory proves that there's nothing so liberating as home rule.
A gusty adventure in the wilds of Patagonia, both on bike and very suddenly off.
The Chiricahua Mountains are as rugged and diverse as the Galápagos but have one big advantage: They're right here at home.
On a bicycle tour of Cuba, solidarity can only take you so far.
They go to eastern Honduras, the wildest stretch of idyll that our hemisphere has to offer
After a lifetime of wanting, Jon Krakauer made it to the world's highest point. What he and the other survivors would discover in the months to come, however, is that it's even more difficult to get back down.
In the 500 dusty years of refined yet raw Spanish ritual, one young matador stands quite apart from the others
