BY EMILY PLEASANCE Eighteen years old and just finishing high school, Kim left her family home in Australia to travel the world. She hadn’t a clue what path to take in university, so she gave up academics as her source…
Life without Borders
This cyclist is riding away from her organized life and career in order to pursue true freedom
BY: MARINELLA MATEJCIC Katarzyna Zwolak, a recreational cyclist from Poland, was a girl who pursued her career and had an organized life where everything seemed to be in perspective. She had an excellent job she really liked, activist interests, a…
Capturing 50 reasons to hike Angels Landing
BY: DONNY Earlier this year, my friends and I decided to road trip to southern Utah and Arizona. Zion National Park was one of the top places we HAD to visit. Zion is an adventurer’s paradise with tons of hiking,…
The Pros and Cons of Traveling Alone
There’s something about traveling alone that’s hard to explain. It’s a pretty unique way to see the world. Generally, as people in an interconnected society, we grow up relying on others for assistance and waiting for or compromising with them.…
Meet the future Olympian who lives out of his van on America’s most desired coastline for free
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Stephan Shay is a runner and Olympic hopeful. Shay has a comparatively invisible ecological footprint than the average American. He is frugal, so he enjoys more financial freedom that many. But to many people, upon seeing Shay…
Feel like every day is the same? These photos will give you a catalogue of escape-plans
BY: ALEX BROWN All Images © Andrew Waits Many people, like Scott Mooiy, are turning to a new vision of the American Dream, one that is not wealth-centered, but where experience takes precedence. This new dream is valuable in its…
Journalist Paul Salopek is three years into his seven-year “Out of Eden Walk” around our planet
By: JACK M. Paul Salopek is a 53-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist. He has worked with such prestigious publications as the Chicago Tribune and National Geographic, and he has won not one, but two, Pulitzer Prizes –…
After this businessman was diagnosed with MS, he built an elf-house in the side of a cliff (Photos)
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE When Angelo Mastropietro was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, he decided to do something most faced with his situation wouldn’t… He excavated 70 tonnes of stone by hand to build the ultimate cave-home inside an 800-year-old sandstone cliff.…
The toughest sled dog race in the world will test your ultimate survival skills
BY: CAROLINE ROLF The sun rises on a clear, -40° morning as competitors place their callused hands on the back of their sled, perching, dogs waiting to run. The only sounds across the ice are sharp breaths and paws…
How facing paralysis gave me the strength to face Kilimanjaro
BY: LOGAN LY ALL IMAGES BY: LOGAN LY I hear myself panting. I’m short of breath as I try to shift focus to my feet from the growling wind and the loud, panging pulse that bangs through my eardrums. The…
What 2 million steps through Ethiopian mountains untouched since biblical times looks like
BY: MARIO GERTH PHOTOS BY: MARIO GERTH Dessda, our chocolate brown donkey is scratching with her hooves in dry sand. On her back we arrange our luggage and equipment for the next four weeks. We are ready. And we are…
Here’s an essential hostel packing list for the well-prepared adventurer
BY: Taylor on A Trip For a princess like myself, a hostel stay can be either lovely or terrible depending on how much I am inconvenienced. For your peace of mind and your personal hygiene, make the below a necessary packing…
Photos of the nomadic van-life in California show the diversity of freedom
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE The nomads of today are less drawn to the freedom of the Great Plains and more to the freedom of gold sand and saltwater. They live by a realization: the van-life is not some commitment to work-shy…
Photos reveal an underground society that has returned to the serenity of the uncharted woods
BY: CAROLINE ROLF All images by: Eric Valli Would you be willing to give up technology, labels and social media to minimize your impact on the earth? French photographer, Eric Valli has had great commercial success, but this set of…
Here are some of the great (and not so great) things you can expect when staying in a hostel
BY: Taylor on a Trip I’ve already dissected some of the stereotypes about hostels that are untrue. Now it’s time to flip the coin and see which ones are. 1. You will meet some incredible people What a better place…
If you feel your passion wrinkling like a grape under the sun, this will reinvigorate your life (video)
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE We have all felt the sudden onset of bleakness that settles behind our eyes and clouds everything that stands before them. But understand that perspective is a choice. There are fewer things more exhausting than managers and…
Don’t let these five misconceptions about hostels ruin your travel experience
BY: Taylor on A Trip As we all know, finding accommodations when you don’t know anyone in your travel destination can be super expensive. That being said, it continues to blow my mind that so many people believe they can’t travel unless they…
Why your first job should be in a developing country
BY: IVAN DAMNJOVIC All images below by Ivan Damnjanovic Follow Ivan online: Twitter & Instagram April 25, 2015 at 11:56 a.m., an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 strikes Nepal, impacting tens of thousands of people and costing $5 billion in damages. Less…
A German photographer cycled 40,000 km to capture portraits of the last African Nomads
BY: DANIKA MOIR Photos by Mario Gerth Mario Gerth is a documentary photographer whose profession has brought him to over 80 countries in five continents. He has travelled for two years across remote African regions into a world completely different…
In 2017, the government is making admission to all of Canada’s national parks free
BY: JESSICA BEUKER 2017 marks Canada’s 150th birthday, and Parks Canada has an early birthday present for all Canadians. In an initiative brought forward by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Parks Canada is waiving all park entrance fees for a year.…