Video: John Muir in Animated Form

John Muir was a naturalist and conservationist who advocated for protecting our natural landscapes long before it was fashionable to do so. ...

America's 100 Best Adventures (According to Nat Geo)

National Geographic Adventure is back with another great list today, this time giving us their picks for the Best Adventures in America . T...

Video: Rediscover Your Inner Explorer

Here's a beautiful little video shot in the Dominica that is meant to inspire us to explore and seek adventures. It features some excell...

Nat Geo Announces 2014 Emerging Explorers

Yesterday, National Geographic announced its 2014 class of Emerging Explorers , a distinction it awards to researchers, scientists, adventu...

Melting Ice in Antarctica "Unstoppable" According to New Climate Report

A new climate report, released earlier this week, paints a dire picture for the ice sheets in west Antarctica. According to climate data col...

Explorers Museum Gains Patron In Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Last week, representatives from the Explorers Museum announced that it had gained a patron in the form of Sir Ranulph Fiennes , the British...

Explorers Museum Gains Patron In Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Last week, representatives from the Explorers Museum announced that it had gained a patron in the form of Sir Ranulph Fiennes , the British...

Ryan Waters Becomes First American To Complete Unsupported "Explorers Grand Slam"

A foot note to last week's story about Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters becoming the first team to reach the North Pole on foot in more tha...

National Geographic Announces 2014 Gear of the Year - Spring/Summer Edition

For all of those gear hounds out there looking to get their fix, National Geographic has announced their selections for the 2014 Spring/Sum...

Traveling!

I am doing a little traveling over the next couple of days to visit friends and families, so there won't be any updates to the Adventure...

Video: Escaping the Light Dome - Getting a Better View of the Night Sky

Light pollution has become a major deterrent for us to fully see the night sky overhead. In large metropolitan areas, the sky is so saturate...

Video: Tom Sawyer on the Danube

One of the things that I try to stress here on this blog is that adventure comes in many forms. Sure, it sometimes means climbing a big moun...

National Geographic Presents 50 Tours Of A Lifetime For 2014

Earlier this week, National Geographic Traveler  has released their annual selection of their Tours of a Lifetime , giving us 50 more amazin...

3000 Cups Of Tea: Revisiting The Greg Mortenson Story

It has been some time since we've had any kind of update on the Greg Mortenson story. You'll recall, he's the climber-turned-aut...

3000 Cups Of Tea: Revisiting The Greg Mortenson Story

It has been some time since we've had any kind of update on the Greg Mortenson story. You'll recall, he's the climber-turned-aut...

Video: The Oldest Living Things In The World

Ever wondered what the oldest living things in the world are? So did the photographers in this video, who have spent the better part of a de...

Peter Matthiessen, Author of The Snow Leopard Passes Away

This weekend saw the passing of Peter Matthiessen ,  a writer and environmentalist whose own life could have been, at times, mistaken for fi...

Video: Hilarious Spoof On Adventure Films

This video came my way last night via Facebook (Thanks Kate!) and is a day late for April Fool's Day, but it is worth it none the less. ...

Explorers Fighting Back Against Cyberstalkers - Updated!

Updated 4/15/2014:  The text that I originally wrote for this post has been removed. Since it was originally published on April 2, 2014, the...

Video: Dancing On The Maiden

Here's something we really haven't seen before. The video below shows a "fabric dancer" plying her craft on The Maiden, a ...