55 Days, 27 Destinations, 10 Life Lessons: Couchsurfing Across Europe
How a whirlwind and highly-planned couchsurfing trip to Europe helped a young traveller become the person he’s choosing to be.
My Tour Du Mont Blanc: Rob Brodey’s Trail Running Series
In his ongoing quest to explore the planet’s most beautiful trails, an avid ultra-runner heads to one of Europe’s highest mountains for a gruelling five-day walk.
I So Love Your Altitude! The Atacama Desert: Is this the Driest Place on Earth?
In Chile’s spectacular Atacama Desert everything is high, even the bottom of the deepest canyon
“Tsa’lam”: The Old Salt Route. On the Ancient Trail with Explorer Jeff Fuchs
“If one had salt or tea, one was rich, one could live.” Spoken slowly, the words come out of a lined and haunted face, the mouth barely moving. It is a face worn and enlightened by eight decades in the full of ...
The Chawaytiri Weavers of Peru’s Sacred Valley (In The Land of Ayni: Part 2)
We are just outside the Andean village of Chawaytiri—meaning Village of the Llama, or Eye of the Llama—that sits at 12,000 feet in the highlands, just 50 kilometres from Cusco in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Wading Through the World’s Biggest Vinyl Market in Utrecht
One woman travels nearly 8,000 kilometres to mingle with 30,000 audiophile men to figure out vinyl’s second wave.
Camelot Uncovered: Did King Arthur Really Exist? We Went to Wales to Find Out
We came to Wales in search of the man behind King Arthur, but we found so much more: friendship, childhood memories, mystery, and many layers of the past.
In The Land of Ayni (Part 1): The Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu
In the Peruvian Andes, explorer Jeff Fuchs treks across high-altitude valleys, guided by a force that defines mountain life: reciprocity.
Yunnan, a Tea Lover’s Paradise: On the Ancient Trail with Jeff Fuchs
Tea has been Asia’s beverage of choice for more than a millennia. For Jeff Fuchs—a long-addicted tea fanatic—the journey to Yunna is a step into nirvana.
They Call it Gitchigami: a Mother-Son Kayaking Trip on Lake Superior
Story by Liza Finlay, photos by Naomi Finlay
The ribbon of road wends its way north, bobbing and dipping through wild thatches of forest that have been trimmed and tamed to make room for man. Swaths of north...