Adventure Collection’s Hot Trips for 2010

With global economic recovery slowly but surely underway, feedback from Adventure Collection member companiess shows that more and more travelers are requesting catalogs and itineraries and perusing trip web pages. To further whet this wanderlust, I asked AC members to recommend one particularly hot trip for 2010 – a journey that especially impassions them. Here are their recommendations. [...]

Cheetah Chase Captures Adventure Collection Photo Contest

The second winner of the Adventure Collection’s Adventures of a Lifetime photo competition has been selected! Kathleen Rice’s photo of a cheetah chasing a Thomson’s gazelle in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve was chosen from among more than 100 entries as our August winner. Rice’s grand prize is a trip for two to view polar bears [...]

John Rasmus: Adventures in Storytelling

 A conversation with the Editor in Chief of National Geographic Adventure magazine
 
 
DG: What initially drew you to the job of editing an adventure publication?
JR: I was a young city magazine editor back in the late ’70s, enamored of the New Journalism and magazines like Rolling Stone and New York, but I loved the kinds of [...]

An Intimate and Expansive Appreciation of Bhutan

Matthieu Ricard’s extraordinary new photography and text book, Bhutan: The Land of Serenity, presents a profoundly transporting portrait of the land, culture, and people of this Himalayan kingdom.
Bhutan has exerted a spell on me over the past three years. Though I’d been aware of the country for almost two decades, somehow recently the place had [...]

Living Africa

Africa is a favorite subject for coffee table tomes, but I have rarely come across as compelling a package of photographs and essays as Living Africa, a new book by Steve Bloom.
In more than 200 photographs, South African-born Bloom showcases a mind-expanding spectrum of African landscape, wildlife, and humanity. He has a gift for making [...]

October Grand Canyon Rafting with OARS

OARS has just sent word about some great last-minute opportunities in the Grand Canyon. If you’re hankering for a last-minute getaway to one of the planet’s most spectacular places, read on!

So, we mentioned that it might happen from time to time, but now it’s really here…Due to a couple of last-minute cancellations, we just had [...]

First Adventure Collection Photo Contest Winner Announced

The first winner of the Adventure Collection’s Adventures of a Lifetime photo competition has been selected! Drew Notestine’s photo of snow-capped peaks in Patagonia was chosen from among more than 100 entries as the July winner. Notestine’s grand prize is a trip for two to the Galapagos with Lindblad Expeditions.
A native of Colorado who lives [...]

CMH Announces New “Nomads” Programs

Canadian Mountain Holidays just announced a very exciting Nomads program for trulyadventurous ski buffs. Here are the details:
Over the years, a few guests (and some of us staff) have been fortunate enough to ski through multiple areas on one trip (or even in one day). The experience of covering so much terrain is so profound [...]

Backroads: New Trips for 2010

Backroads just announced its new trips for 2010, and they sound spectacular. Here they are:
New Classic Trips
Our new Dordogne & Bordeaux Biking trip is a perfect duo of France’s colorful history and renowned viticulture. Among the highlights: prehistoric cave paintings at Font du Gaume, exploring St-Émilion, whose history dates back to the 2nd century, [...]

Lost World in Papua New Guinea

The Guardian recently reported a fascinating story that really captures the spirit of adventure and discovery. A team of scientists forged their way into a Jules Vernes-ian lost world in an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea and discovered some 40 new species, among other wonders. You can check out the story here:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/08/mount-bosavi-creatures-discovery-scientists
And here are [...]