CREATED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH I’ve done a lot of hiking. Definitely more than most people. I grew up in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. I worked as a tree planter in those same mountains for two years after graduating from University. I later lived in Utah for a couple of years and once climbed … Read more
Photo credit: Chris Goldberg Waterfalls, caves, mountain peaks, and ancient forests. This probably doesn’t sound much like Los Angeles to those who have sat in traffic on the 5 Freeway, gone sightseeing among skyscrapers in the city center,
I lived in Taiwan for 8 years. It’s beautiful, small, oval-shaped island that is 394 km from the North to South and 144 km across. The East Coast has a wide flat plain where most of the population lives. Nearly all of the rest of the country is tall, steep, jungle-covered mountains that are filled … Read more
Photo: Iceland Tourism Iceland is a bold country for bold people. It’s for travelers who want to dive directly into nature, party until the sun comes up (even when it never goes down), and dine on some of the sea’s most freaky creatures. The Land of Fire and Ice is a place that continues to wow … Read more
I met Rita in Batad, one of the small villages perched among the 2000-year-old rice terraces of the jagged Cordillera mountain range on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. No roads reach the mountain village. To get to Batad my friends and I hired a jeepney in Banue and rode an hour along a windy dirt … Read more
I grew up in a small town in the Rocky Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, which is relatively close to Jasper, one of Canada’s most respected adventure destinations. By close, I mean ‘Canada close’ — a six-hour drive.
Images and text by Mark Whitman Climbing Kilimanjaro is definitely an adventure, but I’ve never personally looked at it that way. Thousands flock to Tanzania every year with the sole purpose of attempting to reach what many colloquially call the Roof of Africa. Standing at 19,341 feet (5,895 meters), Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain on … Read more