A golden pinnacle and four sets of hypnotic eyes crown the Boudhanath Stupa, a 2,000-year-old Tibetan Buddhist holy site in Nepal. Visiting the stupa in full moonlight is believed to be a high act of Buddhist practice — so I went when both the moon...
Her childhood dream was to go abroad. When the dream becomes reality, Mridu Khullar Relph learns to travel in Ghana: afraid, alone, independent and free....
It's a high-altitude, glacier-adorned wonderland on the Mont Blanc massif. And, if you're up for summiting the more than 15,000ft-high peak of Aiguille du Midi, it may be your perfect adventure....
A symphony of silence on the glittering waters of Neko Harbor, Antarctica, brings Sivani Babu home....
We were high in the Pyrenees, mid-way through a whirlwind of non-stop adventures, and when they told us that we were heading up to the mountain village of Meranges to meet Eduardo Jornet — father of famed runner and mountaineer Kilian Jornet, who had just...
This UNESCO World Heritage site, comprising 30 rock-cut Buddhist prayer halls, meditation chambers, and monasteries that dated from the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century AD, had remained hidden by jungle, dirt, animals, and brush for more than 1,000 years...
The Arctic’s Polar Night had become as dominant as the Midnight Sun had been, and as I waited for the boat to pull away from the shore, the water before us lay black....
It had been a disastrous day on Mount Rainier and night was falling. A few feet away, my climbing partner lay on the ground with a life-threatening chest wound...
My first impression was of a city beige and worn, but as I quickly found out, there is more to Fes than initially meets the eye....
The palpable magic of the wilderness we’re in is so captivating, it’s an actual balm to physical pain....