Deadly Avalanche on Mount Mizhirgi: What Climbers Near Elbrus Need to Know
An avalanche on Mount Mizhirgi near Elbrus killed 11 climbers, with six missing and six injured. What it means...
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Kyrgyzstan's Tien Shan: a 10-day trek where nomad camps, kymyz and nameless peaks do the healing
A 10-day, 80km trek through Kyrgyzstan's Tien Shan: nameless peaks, nomad camps, kymyz and Silk Road trails ne...
Accessible Travel Stories Take Off: United Airlines Now Streaming the TravelAbility Film Festival Winners
United Airlines is streaming the 10 winning films from the first TravelAbility Film Festival, led by an Oregon...
A Young Rick Steves' 1978 Herat Journal Is a Window Into a Lost Afghanistan
Rick Steves' 1978 Hippie Trail diary from Herat, Afghanistan: $5 bus rides, bazaar haggling and a city now los...
Search Suspended for Trail Runner Kalie McCrystal Missing on the Matterhorn
Trail runner Kalie McCrystal, 38, went missing scouting an FKT attempt on the Matterhorn's Lion's Ridge. What...
Five Days, Five Stages: How Strangers Become Friends on a Small-Group Trip in Iceland
How a five-day small-group trip through Iceland's Golden Circle followed psychologist Bruce Tuckman's five sta...
Bikes, Bazaars and a $12 Mink: Rick Steves' 1978 Herat Journal
Rick Steves shares his 1978 Hippie Trail journal: cycling Herat's mud lanes, haggling a $12 mink, and Afghanis...
Flooding Closes Nepal's Manaslu Circuit Just as the Autumn Trekking Season Begins
Monsoon floods have washed out the Manaslu Circuit in Nepal, closing the trek and forcing climbers to helicopt...
Vesuvius with a seven-year-old: how one family trip turned volcano fear into a win
A seven-year-old's volcano fears meet Mount Vesuvius on a family trip to Italy — Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast, an...
Three Adventure Books to Pack in 2026: Messner, Jeremy Collins and the Explorers Club
Three new adventure reads for 2026: Reinhold Messner's memoir, Jeremy Collins' sketchbook travels and the Expl...
Rick Steves' 1978 Hippie Trail Journal: A 14-Hour Bus Ride Across Afghanistan
Rick Steves' 1978 journal revisits the Hippie Trail: a 14-hour bus ride from Herat to Kabul, cheap dinners, cu...
Ikuo Oshima, the Tokyo Climber Who Became a Greenland Hunter, Dies at 79
Ikuo Oshima, the Tokyo mountaineer who spent 50+ years as a hunter and elder in Siorapaluk, Greenland's northe...