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• Talking point: tell us about your favourite holiday tour guides

  22 Oct 2014: Wanderlust magazine has just announced the winners of its annual World Guide Awards. Have you ever had a guide who transformed your travelling experience?

• Skiing in Afghanistan – it's one hour up and two minutes down

  21 Oct 2014: There’s no ski lift and no chalets, but a growing number of adventurous skiers are heading to Afghanistan for virgin snow and warm hospitality. This article first appeared in Sidetracked magazine

• Trekking in South Africa’s Drakensberg: ‘Did you book a cave?’

  18 Oct 2014: After the signposts and the hiking trails run out, Kevin Rushby pushes on deep into South Africa’s Drakensberg range for an unforgettable wilderness trek, with only birds and baboons for company

• New books party: Books that arrived recently

  17 Oct 2014: GrrlScientist: After my bookgasm (book-buying binge) at last week’s Frankfurt Book Fair, I’ve got a mountain of wonderful books to share with you -- a project that will take place over the next few weeks.

• Nepal blizzard: survivor tells of friends’ deaths on Annapurna circuit

  16 Oct 2014: Trekker describes frozen bodies and crowded shack refuge as likely death toll on Nepal mountain route is put at more than 30

• Nepal snowstorms trap trekkers as death toll rises

  16 Oct 2014: More than 20 people on Annapurna expedition feared to be suffering from frostbite and severe dehydration

• Secret Adventures: a journey into unknown Essex

  11 Oct 2014: A new company is offering a range of magical mystery tours in undisclosed wild places. You have nothing to lose but your urban hang-ups …

• London Surf Film Festival: five movies you have to catch

  7 Oct 2014: Surfing in Iran, tackling prejudice and big wave eye-candy, the London Surf Film Festival’s selection this year provides an adrenaline rush on all fronts, says Will Coldwell

• Cliff camping in Colorado: postcards from the ledge

  5 Oct 2014: There are lots of great ways to see the Rockies – skiing, trekking, a road trip – but for Aaron Millar a storm-tossed hike, abseiling in darkness and (not) sleeping halfway up a cliff proved to be the best

• Think twice about wild animal tourism, visitors told

  4 Oct 2014: A leading animal charity is urging tourists to think more carefully about the impact their adventures are having on animals

• Wingsuiting: adrenaline highs and dangerous lows

  2 Oct 2014: Wingsuit diving is one of the world’s most dangerous extreme sports. Ahead of this month’s World Wingsuit League Grand Prix, defending champion Jhonathan Florez explains the rush behind jumping off a cliff in an inflatable suit

• Top 10 national and state parks in Washington state

  30 Sep 2014: Washington is known as the Evergreen State, but its stunning national and state parks offer an abundance of colours, ranging from white-capped mountains to islands in the deep blue ocean

• Microadventure breaks in the UK: travel thrills without the holiday hassle

  18 Sep 2014: It’s one of the warmest – and driest – Septembers in decades so make the most of it and plan a microadventure in the UK. Alastair Humphreys offers tips for some late-summer fun

• Experience: I was attacked by a polar bear

  12 Sep 2014:

  Andy Ruck: I knew Horatio was dead, and I knew that was the worst nightmare of his family, his friends, and of any expedition leader

• Trekking to Everest base camp: readers’ travel writing competition

  6 Sep 2014: Alexei Vink, winner in the adventure category, tested himself on a trek through the Nepalese Himalayas to Everest base camp in Nepal
  

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