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You like the idea of sleeping in a tent on a frozen glacier midwinter. But you also really enjoy beds and hot showers.
I traveled to Samoa in late March for a week of exploratory fly fishing with Australian professional angler Jonathan Jones. Both of us were hopeful about the fishery—it looked promising on maps, with wide, sweeping flats dropping off steeply past the reef edge to cuts that just look fishy.
When filmmaker Rodrigue El Hajj told us that he captured the footage for this short film while traveling for eight days in Iceland, we didn't believe him—it's impossible that anyone could see so much of a country in such a short amount of time. Then again, it's…
Bring your board across international borders to reach one of these legendary locales
At some point during your work day, productivity starts to lag, and you need a break. We get it.
Head to the desert, the mountains, or the coast to catch spring in all of its flowering glory.
Not ready to buy a campervan but still want to experience #vanlife? We’ve got you covered.
The city gets a bad rap: flat, boring, concrete. The flat part? That’s true. But the rest couldn’t be more wrong.
North of the Arctic Circle is a fast-changing and fragile environment and one that filmmakers Florent and Amberly dreamed of exploring since childhood. In June of 2015, the couple traveled to Ilulissat, Greenland, and then ventured out to Disko Bay to document the surrounding landscape and preserve the natural beauty…
This summer, a Los Angeles cruise company is sending 1,500 passengers on a month-long voyage through the Arctic
In our ongoing Weekly Escape series, we aim to transport you from your desk to an incredible place in two minutes or less. This video from filmmaker Kalum Ko takes us to the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada, to stand on mountaintops, swim in the…
The only commitment required on your part: a reservation
In this short video from Runaways Production House, four friends plunge deep into Australia's Blue Mountains to rig the first highline across Kanangra Falls, roughly 730 feet above the ground. The steps that help each man walk across the line differ, but as one slackliner tells himself: “Calm…
For a decade, the African nation of Burundi was home to a unique phenomenon: group jogs involving thousands of people who hit the streets to sing, socialize, and sometimes protest the nation’s authoritarian president, Pierre Nkurunziza. In March 2014, he banned the activity. As conflicts threaten to boil over—and the body count continues to rise—runners have become both weapons and victims.
You can thank filmmaker John Duncan for creating this visual bucket list of Scotland's wilderness. From the Isle of Skye to Duncansby Bay, Duncan followed the golden light of dawn and dusk across the country with his camera and drone. Duncan features seventeen of his favorite escapes…
You can read about wild and remote places all you want, but nothing compares to experiencing them yourself. That's what filmmaker Hugo Perrin and the Fokus Outdoors crew realized during a trip with Quark Expeditions to Antarctica—their research about the wildlife and landscape of the southernmost point…
All the beauty, all the adventure, none of the tourists
The 60 towns that will go head-to-head in a winner-takes-all contest to find the best place to live in 2016
Whether you’re after a tropical boat ride or an isolated hike through the mountains, now is the time to plan your ultimate 2016 trip and pack your bags.
"Take your worst turbulence experience in an airliner and make it three to five times worse. I wondered if I’d stay in one piece."
Addiction comes in many forms. For Jay Valley, it manifests itself by way of Atlantic salmon fishing on the Népisiguit River in New Brunswick, Canada. It means being on the river by the break of day to lay stake in the best pools and staying put until the sun sets.
Best Towns 2016: Prize Details and Official Rules
Hidden in the Jura Mountains, a sub-alpine mountain range along the France-Switzerland border, are stunning sections of singletrack. To share his experience of riding these trails, filmmaker Joonas Vinnari rigged up a camera and drone—the controller strapped to his chest—and self-captured the incredible footage seen in this…
When we think of a small village on the Iceland coast, we think of a place like Vík. From sitting at the base of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier, which rests on top of the Katla volcano, to boasting an incredible display of the Northern Lights, Vík is quintessential Iceland, and it…
Baja: The ultimate weekend escape. And it’s way easier than you think to get here.
You can hang in Cancun with the rest of the world, or head to one of these less well-known spots for a real ocean adventure.
Everything you need for 24 hours on the road
Between Earth and Sky is an inspiring and visceral short film shot and directed by Australian filmmaker Benjamin Dowie in the French Alps while adventuring with his good friend and fellow filmmaker Mathieu Le Lay. During this same adventure, Le Lay produced Walk the Ridge, a short…
You’ll need fewer pints up here than you would at sea level
No, you don't need to be in Canada or Alaska to go cat skiing. And yes, it’s really good down here.
From epic skiing in Antarctica to a lazy beer-fueled canoe trip in North Carolina, these are the best places to visit this year
For the last year, Juliana Linder and Richmond Hollen, the couple behind the popular Instagram feed @homesweetvan, have been building up their Mercedes Sprinter in preparation for diving headfirst into the #Vanlife lifestyle. This March, the couple will leave their corporate jobs and hit the road full time, in one…
Filmmaker Nessim Stevenson traveled to Mongolia for three months in 2015. He put together this short video of his trip, which serves as a beautiful reminder of how incredible the country is. You can follow Stevenson's adventures on Facebook and Instagram.
You don’t need to be in a big city to drink quality, locally-sourced booze. More and more craft distilleries are popping up in mountain towns.
Filmmaker Milo Zanecchia spent 90 days traveling from Switzerland to Mongolia in a Land Rover Defender and a Toyota Land Cruiser, and documented the entire journey. Latitude 45 – Switzerland to Mongolia is an incredible look at the trip, filled with stunning visuals…
It's the perfect time of year for the quintessential American road trip
Whether you’re refueling after a dawn patrol or heading out for a day of on the snow, here’s where to dig into some of the best breakfasts in the mountains
A hotel should be more than just a place to sleep. These new ski-town lodges go above and beyond.
Sedona, Arizona, is known for some seriously technical mountain bike trails like Highline, Hangover and White Line. There are also a few hiking trails that most people consider unrideable, like Cathedral Rock trail. Watch as rider Simon Bosman proves them wrong. …
There's a lot more to mountain biking than hardcore shredding, nailing jumps, and drifting around corners. Quality Time, from OneUP Components, was filmed in the Monashee Mountains near Revelstoke, British Columbia, and proves that simply spending some time riding through the wilderness is all you really need. …
The only problem you’ll have in the planet’s ultimate adventure mecca is deciding what to do first
All the exhilaration of a good old-fashioned adventure, without the risk of having to eat your tripmates
Need to thaw out? Here are beaches worth visiting this winter.
No sense driving to the ski hill when you can take a train instead.
Everything you need to know to crash in the backcountry (in a good way)
Ski or snowshoe by moonlight, and you’ll deserve the gourmet feast that follows
SPACE is a travel film from Gnarly Bay and Howl Collective that serves as a reminder to make the most of every day and treasure the planet we call home. …
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that Canyons is now part of Park City, and a new gondola connects the two ski areas, making it the single largest resort in the country—7,300 acres, but who’s counting?—and Deer Valley is still here, too.
Sure, Aspen was founded for silver mining in the late 1800s, but you could argue that the town was really founded for post-ski partying.
Don’t let the church steeples and quaint New England vibes fool you: Stowe can party. The town serves up some of the best skiing on the East Coast, including Vermont’s highest peak, Mount Mansfield, which pulls down 314 inches of fresh a year. And the après cene is just as…
Not many places can blend a Wild West sensibility with ski-town chic, but Steamboat Springs is successful on both fronts. The mountain of Steamboat dominates the horizon with almost 3,000 acres of skiing, while working ranches consume the valley. As for the town itself, you can still find a bit…
Tahoe is a sprawling place that encompasses ten resorts and chunks of two states, but the scene is centralized within South Lake Tahoe, where dive bars feed casinos that lead to nightclubs that empty back out into the casinos.
Jackson Hole Resort is billed as the hardest inbounds skiing in the United States, and the après-ski scene can get just as rowdy as Corbets Couloir.
This hilarious video from MeUndies tells the story of climber-turned-tree-house-builder Django Kroner. Kroner moved to Kentucky's Red River Gorge to pursue climbing, where he also began building tree houses. Yes, this is clearly branded content. But we're not getting paid to post it—and we think Kroner and his tree…
North Coast 500: A Pure Highlands Adventure is a short film from Calling Brands about the North Coast 500, a 500-mile loop around the whole north of Scotland. The route was designed by the North Highlands Initiative as a way to increase tourism for small businesses in the area, and gained a reputation…
We teamed up with Instagram to determine the most-photographed national parks of 2015. Here we present our favorite images from the 25 parks that appear most frequently in your photo feed.
Instagram readers share epic outings for the new year
Action-oriented alternatives to get you through the winter
We're big fans of all the films from the folks at More Than Just Parks, a filmmaking duo in the process of creating videos on all 59 of the U.S.'s National Parks. For their latest effort, the crew spent 15 days shooting more than 15,000 photos and videos…
A small team of mountain bikers went on an expedition to the Simien Mountains of northern Ethiopia. The stated goal was to summit the country’s highest peak, 14,928-foot Ras Deshan, and ride back down.
You can find deals even in this pricey segment of an expensive sport—it just takes a bit of strategic planning.
The 21-year-old stumbled on photography just a few years ago through his mom’s 1990’s DSLR. Since then, he’s developed a speciality in capturing simplistic, outdoor scenes around much of the American South.
Capital is venturing out of Silicon Valley to the nation's coolest towns
The advantage of being a van owner is that new adventures are always nearby, even if things don't go as planned. Julien Roussin, of Go-Van, found some of his own earlier this fall when the ocean failed to produce waves on a 10-day surf…
Travel south and stay warm for a long walk on these worthy winter trails
It’s no secret what you’re getting into when you run across Cabin Porn on the bookshelf: unadulterated, glorious cabins.
Once a year, Johannesburg-based Wilderness Safaris organizes its Tour de Tuli, a 300-kilometer (186-mile), four-day MTB ride through the Tuli Block of southern Africa, connecting Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
Chile Nativo is an adventure travel company based out of Puerto Natales, Chile, which means they have prime access to the best of Patagonia. Outside featured them in this year’s Best of Travel because of the epic trips they lead, like The Last Frontier Horseback Ride, which includes 11 days…