Tag: adventure
History of climbing crampons
Crampons are a robust frame, often made of metal, with sharp spikes set at specific points such as at the toe. These are attached to…
Getting started in the sport of Kayaking
These days, you can find people enjoying kayaking wherever there is a body of water big enough. Over the past twenty years, a huge surge…
Vanlife: three reasons to live without a lease
If you’ve spent much time off the beaten path in the last decade, you’ve probably heard of vanlife. Dirtbags living out of their cars on…
Dead Road in Bolivia – The world’s most dangerous road
Famously known as the ‘Death Road.’ The North Yungas Road which leads from La Paz to Coroico in the north of the Yungas region of…
Hang Son Doong is the world’s largest cave with its own river and weather system
Do you want to do some caving but you get claustrophobic? Well, this could be for you. The Hang Doong cave is amazing and you…
Top 10 extreme adventures in Antarctica
It seems to have happened quickly but Antarctica is becoming the perfect travel destination for real adventure travelers. It’s the sort of destination that takes…
How and Why To Pack Light
I remember the first time I decided to do a weekend’s ‘expedition’ in a nearby woodland. I first visited the local camping shop and bought…
Nine Mile Canyon in Utah’s desert is the world’s longest & oldest ‘art gallery’
The Nine Mile Canyon is located deep in the Utah desert in the Western United States. It is known as “the world’s longest art gallery”…
Some Exercises that are Great for Beginner Hikers
I believe that we as human beings can be put into two categories, those that already hike and those of us that should be hiking.…
The bridges and roads that lead nowhere – bizarre artifacts deep in the San Gabriel Mountains
The Bridge to Nowhere is an arch bridge that was built in 1936 north of Azusa, California in the San Gabriel Mountains, to be part…