Kraig Becker 
A new route on Everest promises to make climbing the world’s highest peak a bit safer. According to reports, the path bypasses the increasingly dangerous Khumbu Icefall, eliminating the most deadly and nerve-wracking part of the climb on the South Side of the mountain in Nepal. Opening a New Route Recently, mountaineers Alan Batard and … Read more
A smartphone is one of the handiest tools you can have with you when traveling or exploring the backcountry. As long as you can keep your phone charged, it is an indispensable tool for staying in communication, checking weather reports, listening to music, and snapping photos. But add a few third-party apps to your device, … Read more
For those of us who love to travel, the past year and a half has been incredibly challenging. Yes, the global pandemic has been difficult to deal with, but the fact that it has put a halt to our opportunities to explore the world has been even more frustrating. Fortunately, things are starting to look … Read more
The arrival of winter doesn’t have to mean that we all head inside and wait until spring to continue our outdoor adventures. On the contrary, the cold and snow bring opportunities for new kinds of adventures, and quite frankly, if you haven’t embraced skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, or the host of other winter activities, you’re truly … Read more
For many of us, the arrival of winter means the end of outdoor excursions until spring. But as it turns out, if you have the right mindset—not to mention the right gear—it can be just as fun going outside during the winter as it is other times of the year. Hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, dogsledding, and … Read more
The race for space tourism is on. Earlier this year we saw Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic in direct competition with one another to see who could carry paying customers into low-Earth orbit first. A few months later, SpaceX followed up with a civilian flight of its own, this time taking travelers on a three-day … Read more
It’s well known that widespread poaching in Africa has had dire consequences for the elephant population.Despite the fact that the ivory trade was banned worldwide in 1990, it is believed that more than 30,000 elephants are killed each year for their tusks. This has led to the animals being listed as critically endangered, despite ongoing … Read more
Up until very recently, the opportunity to travel into space was largely restricted to a select few individuals, most of whom where in the employ of their governments. Sure, there have been a handful of billionaires who have hitched a ride to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket, but those were incredibly rare … Read more
One of the many things that have made 2020 and 2021 such challenging years is the cancellation of some of our favorite events. Thanks to COVID, we’ve seen numerous expedition seasons shut down, athletic competitions delayed, and countless other annual gatherings postponed. Thankfully, many of those events are starting to return to the calendar, including … Read more
It is difficult to overstate just how much of an impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the travel industry. When the virus began to spread in early 2020, lockdowns and travel restrictions were put into place in an attempt to limit the spread of the disease. Borders closed, airlines cancelled tens of thousands of … Read more