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The Mountain I Did Not Choose

The Mountain I Did Not Choose

Suffering from serious injury in a pandemic, an adventurous doctor finds herself facing unusual summits – and learning to find hope and adventure in new places....

The End Is My Beginning

The End Is My Beginning

Tamara Lunger has recently returned from K2: an intense season that saw both the first winter ascent of the peak in history – by a Nepali team – and also the tragic deaths of Tamara’s fellow mountaineers....

Bernese Oberland: Summit to Sea

Bernese Oberland: Summit to Sea

Let your boots take you up to remote Alpine huts before flying down to crystal-clear lakes with a paraglider. In Switzerland’s canton of Bern, adventures can reach from summit to sea....

Valais: Four Days, Four Seasons

Valais: Four Days, Four Seasons

From hot mountain hikes to snowy glacier adventures, Switzerland’s Valais region is so diverse that you can experience spring, summer, autumn, and winter in a single trip....

Exploring The Home of Adventure

Exploring The Home of Adventure

Gorge canyoning, via ferratas, snowy glacier expeditions: few places can boast Switzerland’s outdoor challenges. We explore Mike Horn’s domicile of choice, the Swiss home of adventure....

No Sleep ‘Til Zermatt

No Sleep ‘Til Zermatt

The Haute Route in the Alps dips and climbs for 125km across glaciers, gullies, and national borders, from Chamonix to the Matterhorn. Aaron Rolph attempts to completely the route on skis. In a single push....

Desert Heat and Mountain Storms

Desert Heat and Mountain Storms

Motes of ochre and gold cover our shoes. Grains of sand, millennia old and shaped by wind and water, feel as insubstantial as flour or dust, yet all around us we see towers and walls, hundreds of feet tall, sculpted into wondrous forms from these same grains....

In Search of the Golden Eagle

In Search of the Golden Eagle

David Dinsley is the warden of the Oa nature reserve on the Isle of Islay. Here he describes some of his encounters with the island’s enigmatic birds of prey....

Chasing Silence

Chasing Silence

Ángel Grimaldi’s lifelong quest to capture breathtaking images of the ocean to inspire others, seek the harmony and silence of nature, and help conserve fragile ecosystems....

Ocean to Asgard

Ocean to Asgard

Where is the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable risk? On Baffin Island, Bronwyn Hodgins finds loose rock, mountain splendour, and a sense of community....

Malishan

Malishan

A expedition to Taiwan to open one of the longest Canyoning descents in the world – an eight day first descent down the Malishan River....

Janhukot

Janhukot

An expedition to the Garwhal Himalayas to attempt a remote unclimbed 6805m peak called Janhukot, lying at the top of the Gangotri Glacier....

In Search of the Yucca Man

In Search of the Yucca Man

Climbing amongst the rock towers of Joshua Tree National Park, Jared Leto and Jimmy Chin seek their place in the geology of stories that fill this landscape....

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace

The Torngat Mountains Nation Park is a land of mountains and polar bears, small glaciers, and caribou. A spectacular wilderness and a place of spirits....

The Last Wilderness of Scotland

The Last Wilderness of Scotland

Jamie Barnes and Ian Finch journey to the far north west of Scotland, with an aim to paddle & portage their canoe into a remote interior section of the region – one of the most isolated locations in mainland UK. The weather had other ideas....

Lost Captures

Lost Captures

Matty Waudby and Clare Nattress re-trace the pedal strokes of Matty's Grandfather's 1950s bikepacking adventure through Scandinavia....

Le Tour des Alpilles

Le Tour des Alpilles

Caroline Ciavaldini & James Pearson embark on a bikepacking and climbing journey through France in pursuit of a new, adapted family adventure....

Razed In The Wild

Razed In The Wild

Josh Barringer and Julian Kenchenten face testing terrain, trecherous river crossings and high winds during their attempt to run the North Coast Trail....

Close Encounters

Close Encounters

In northern Pakistan, Ana-Maria Pavalache treks the Karakoram mountain range in the Shimshal Valley, on a journey of discovery and encounters with three glaciers, each one special and with a story to be shared....

Change in a Single Breath

Change in a Single Breath

Lily Ryzebol shares her story of how a fear of water evolved into a hunger for extreme underwater adventure....

Solitude Found

Solitude Found

Dan Milner embarks on a six-day, 120-mile mountain bike traverse of the landlocked country of Lesotho, in South Africa....

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