Adventure Sports Info

Icebreaker Victory to take travelers to North Pole in June

Desert News

"Quark Expeditions, a specialist in polar adventure travel, has chartered the nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Years of Victory for expeditions to the North Pole in 2008..."

Related Links: Quark Expeditions

Liquid Evolution Adventure Parks Set To Enable Water Sports Nationwide

Trans World Surf

"Their wave generating technology ranges from standing two-foot waves to 150 thousand-square-foot wave pools, producing waves as large as 12-feet high. Additionally, the company can deliver numerous other outdoor water sports including, white water rafting, kayaking, wakeboarding, canyoneering and scuba diving..."

Related Links: Waveyard website, more details here

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Belize (34)

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Guatemala (11)

Honduras (38)

Nepal (84) 

New Zealand (70)

Nicaragua (22)

Panama (15)

Philippines (39)

Puerto Rico (32)

Atacama Desert - Up for some arid adventure?

John Bordson for the Charlotte Observer

"The Atacama Desert is a very dry place, the driest desert in the world. There are some zones where it hasn't rained in decades; other zones have some dunes with the typical look of a desert, mixed with strange geological formations that resemble those on the planet Mars..."

Related Links: Atacama desert slideshow

Nepal's Secret Kingdom of Mustang

27-7 Press Release

"With the Chinese government's recent closure of Tibet to tourism, travelers may not realize that there are corners of the old Tibet they can still freely travel. Mustang, an autonomous Kingdom on the Nepal/Tibet border is a place so culturally intact that many travelers find it actually more Tibetan than Tibet itself.."

Related Links: Mustang Kingdom, Kali Gandaki gorge, Intrepid Travel.com.

Briton drowns in river boarding accident

 
Barbara McMahon for the Guardian UK

"The woman and her boyfriend were in a group of tourists tackling the descent of the Kawarau river in the Kawarau gorge, near Cromwell, on New Zealand's South Island. The river is known for its fast-moving rapids..."

Related Links: Adventure Sports Info's New Zealand page.

Green Valley Spa offers a zip line to adventure

Ellen Fagg for the Salt Lake Tribune

"Ask the family who founded the place what sets apart Green Valley from other destination spas, and a couple of hours later you might find yourself sitting on the edge of a sandstone cliff, 120 feet in the air, trying to talk yourself into shoving off..."

The best summer hiking in the Alps

British downhill champion Graham Bell and Sean Newsom reveal the best Alpine hiking for families, adrenalin junkies, spa lovers and golfers...

Intrepid Travel Announces New India Adventure Travel at 10 Percent Discount

BOULDER, Colo., April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to increased demand, Intrepid Travel announces three new India adventure trips and is offering 10 percent off these new India adventures when booked by June 2008...

Heli-skiing in British Columbia

Follow along on a trip to Wiegele's heli-skiing resort in British Columbia...

The night before we arrive we meet an experienced guide in the operation, Ron Betts. One of the most fluid skiers in the world, he has spent some of his Canadian summers instructing skiers at Perisher Blue for the past decade. He is reassuring. Betts says it is a fallacy that heli-skiing is "extreme". That myth, he says, is reserved for James Bond movies. "It is just like catching a lift to the top of any mountain resort in the world," he says, "except here the lift is a helicopter."

Keyword Links: Mike Wiegele Heli-Skiing website.