310 articles tagged with adventure travel
There's something magical about venturing into places where nature still reigns supreme, where the rhythm of life moves to ancient beats unchanged by modern civilization. Having spent the last decade seeking these increasingly rare corners of our planet, I've found...
There's something about returning to Canadian soil that awakens the wild spirit in me. Having spent my formative years in London, Ontario, I've always appreciated how Canadian cities serve as gateways to untamed wilderness. Calgary exemplifies this duality perfectly—a sophisticated...
When I tell colleagues at the Philadelphia courthouse that I spent my winter break scaling limestone cliffs and exploring ancient cave systems in northern Ethiopia, I'm met with raised eyebrows and curious questions. Mekelle—the capital city of Tigray region—isn't exactly...
The first time I stood atop Slættaratindur—the highest peak in the Faroe Islands—I felt like I was perched on the edge of the world. Below me, emerald valleys carved by ancient glaciers tumbled toward a coastline where the restless North...
The morning sun had just begun to paint El Misti's perfect cone with golden light as I stood at 16,000 feet, my breath forming small clouds in the thin air. Twenty-six years after my first Himalayan trek sparked my love...
Much like the carefully orchestrated security protocols I design in my day job, the Swiss Alps surrounding Zurich operate with magnificent precision—except here, the payoff isn't network safety but rather pure, unadulterated adrenaline. As someone who spends workdays analyzing digital...
There's something profoundly humbling about standing before art created by human hands thousands of years ago. As the afternoon sun casts long shadows across the quartzite faces of Botswana's Tsodilo Hills, I find myself tracing the outline of a giraffe...
The morning mist clung to the emerald canopy as I stood at the edge of the Mayombe Forest, my drone hovering above like a curious hummingbird capturing the vastness of this verdant wilderness. After decades of exploring well-trodden paths from...
When most travelers think of Palau, they envision crystal-clear waters, world-class diving, and the iconic Jellyfish Lake. But after my third visit to this Pacific paradise, I've discovered there's a whole world beyond the blue that few visitors ever experience....
The Amazon rainforest has always held a special allure for me, not unlike the reverence I once felt standing in Lord's Cricket Ground for the first time. There's something sacred about these spaces—one a cathedral to human achievement, the other...
The moment my mask broke the surface of Gizo's crystalline waters, I knew this wasn't going to be like any diving expedition I'd experienced before. Below me lay not just vibrant coral reefs teeming with marine life, but a haunting...
Standing at the rim of Fish River Canyon in the soft glow of dawn, I found myself caught in that familiar filmmaker's dilemma—to capture this majestic scene or simply absorb it. The second-largest canyon in the world stretched before me...
At sixty-one, most of my Pittsburgh contemporaries are settling into retirement routines of golf and grandchildren. Meanwhile, I'm strapping myself into a harness, about to launch off a platform suspended 30 meters above the Atlantic Forest outside Recife, Brazil. The...
The engine of my Triumph Tiger 800 rumbled beneath me as I gazed at the road ahead, stretching from the colonial charm of San Miguel de Tucumán in Argentina to the bustling border town of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay....
The postcard version of Rio de Janeiro—golden beaches dotted with bronze bodies, samba rhythms pulsing through cobblestone streets, and that iconic Christ the Redeemer blessing it all from above—tells only half the story. As a 61-year-old novelist who's spent decades...
