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"Travel by its very nature demands simplicity. If you don�t believe this, just go home and try stuffing everything you own into a backpack. This will never work, because no matter how meagerly yo…

"It is one of the seductions of travel that it allows us to enjoy the extremes of human emotion and experience in the knowledge that next morning we shall wake in a different place, having left t…

Our world harbors an uncharted territory, no longer white spaces on the map but black spaces, erected by political terrorism, defended not by insurmountable chains of mountains and impenetrable jungle…

"Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personalit…

"Our world harbors an uncharted territory, no longer white spaces on the map but black spaces, erected by political terrorism, defended not by insurmountable chains of mountains and impenetrable …

"I wished I had lived in the days of real journeys, when it was still possible to see the full splendor of a spectacle that had not yet been blighted, polluted and Spoiled. When was the best time…

"…I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" – a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws gravity or momentum. …

Adventure education is a recent phenomenon in the widespread business of teaching and learning. Its emergence has, ironically, coincided with the decline of the wilderness resource upon which it depen…

Somewhat to my dismay Everest bore that immense snow plume which means a mighty wind tearing across the summit, lifting Clouds of powered snow and driving it with blizzard force eastward. Up went the …

I first met Steve Fossett on a freezing January evening at the Busch stadium in St. Louis, Mo., in 1997. He was about to attempt a solo circumnavigation of the world by balloon, and although we were r…