The remote wilderness of the NWT’s Canol Heritage Trail can be hauntingly beautiful and frighteningly indifferent to trekkers who challenge it.
“Weather’s changing fast—I want to fly you boys in tonight.” Photojournalist Colin O’Connor and I had barely touch...
The drop is over 300 metres. The path, steep and narrow, is a jumble of large boulders washed down a jut in the cliff side in one of Arizona's epic downpours.
Black, the mustang beneath me, is growing more hesitant with every step. He picks his spots carefully, like a dandy trying to cross...
I’m not sure what it is about baths and “eureka” moments, but much like Archimedes himself, I’m having a soak when it hits me.
It’s Friday night—the end of my fifth day in Kentucky—and I’m staying at the recently renovated Boone Tavern in the tin...
“How do you like sleeping in a grave yard?”
Louie points to the place where we plan to pitch our tents and smiles. After examining five more gravesites, all likely from the Franklin voyage, Louie leads us over to the human skull he found. I have adopted his technique of movin...
Biking along the Silk Road last summer taught me something about the nature of gravity that Marco Polo neglected to mention in his writings.
While burning muscle to the bone cycling through some of the most torturous terrain in Asia, I discovered that gravity is not fixed and immutable; not si...
This is the first in our 2013 series of great travel stories from guest writers who have an interest in backpacker travel and hostelling—we hope you enjoy the series!
Heather Cleland is our first featured writer. She is well travelled and a seasoned hosteller—in fact, she used to...
There are a few things I really don’t like hearing when paragliding. At the top of the list is “Brace for impact,” but not far behind is “Do you want to see what this baby can do?”
Drifting high above a Turkish Mediterranean that sparkles in the midday heat,...
Molokai is a half-forgotten vestige of the old Polynesia, the only island in Hawaii where the natives form the majority and its indigenous language is gaining speakers. You don't come here looking for a curtain of high-rise hotels along the beaches—there isn't a single building tall...
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