Hiking India’s Kuari Pass By Mridula Dwivedi “Itne pathron per tou mein jindagi mein kabhi nahin chali hun.” (I’ve never walked on so many stones in my whole life.) We decided to trek through Kuari Pass, in the Uttranchal Himalayas and the journey started from New Delhi. It was raining for the most of the […]
A journey to the base of Mt. Everest, explaining some of the dangers, including ice falls and altitude sickness, lukla to everest base camp.
By Fiona Tunstall Yao Zi Yu is a village just two hours travel from the cosmopolitan Beijing city centre. A bus ride out of town to this speck of a village is like time travel linking us with the past, a treasured part of the Great Wall reached by trekking in the Huang Hua Cheng […]
Nude Hiking: The freedom and fun of hiking naked in Washington’s Cascade range. Tips on nude hiking etiquette like when to cover up on the trail.
Havasu Canyon: Sharon Miller hikes down the steep sides into Havasu Canyon, which is part of the Havasupai Indian Reservation, and camps at the bottom.
By Cindy Bigras The train lurching to a halt woke me in the early morning hours. I pulled aside the window shade to reveal my first magnificent view of the Alps. These were not like the Green Mountains of Vermont where I had grown up….these were majestic, snow-covered peaks and steep vertical drops all within […]
A Trinidad Hiking Adventure: Rough Terrain, Gentle People By Christine Ridout When friends ask me about my three-day Trinidad adventure hiking the rainforest, I come up with opposites: some of the roughest terrain I’ve ever hiked and some of the gentlest, warmest people I’ve met in a long time. Arriving in Trinidad at night, we […]
In Sinai Egypt, you can take a tour that will bring you to the arid desert or under the crystal waters of the Red Sea, tour operators offer both options.
