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Adventure holidays

  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
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    Mishal Husain: recreating my grandparents’ epic journey into remotest Pakistan

    Guided by an account written 70 years ago, Mishal Husain heads deep into the mountains of Hunza and Baltistan

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  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
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    How do the one per cent spend their holidays?

    There is a tendency to stick with your tribe and vacation only where other wealthy people are

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  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
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    A watchmaker and a racing driver get into a Gullwing

    Jacky Ickx and Karl-Friedrich Scheufele have just completed their 15th Mille Miglia. They talk careers and classic cars

    Jacky Ickx (left) and Karl-Friedrich Scheufele with the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing behind them
  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
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    On the road again: rediscovering freedom on a drive across America

    Thirty years after she and a friend drove across America, Samantha Weinberg hits the road again

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  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
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    HTSI’s favourite outdoor adventure shops

    Where to find the best kit for hiking, sailing, motorbiking, running and more

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  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
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    The hut-to-hut Alpine hike gets a five-star makeover

    A US company is attempting to reinvent the hut-to-hut Alpine hike, with guides, gourmet food and luxed-up mountain refuges

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  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
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    An Adirondack institution for adventurers

    The Mountaineer has all the kit you need before heading off into the wilderness

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  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
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    Scotland’s magic mountain

    For centuries, the mystery and beauty of Schiehallion have drawn visitors in pursuit of enlightenment both spiritual and scientific

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  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
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    Ultra-private wilderness in Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana and Mozambique

    A herd of wildebeest in Grumeti in Tanzania
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
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    An all-terrain ultra adventure in Oman

    A new genre of extreme sport is opening the Sultanate’s mountainous interior. Will you take the plunge?

    Exploring rock formations at Wadi Hawir
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
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    The amazing double life of Lhakpa Sherpa: Everest record breaker — and Connecticut house cleaner

    With little help from sponsors, Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest 10 times — more than any other woman — and overcome even bigger challenges off the mountain

    A woman stands on a rocky ledge looking out over a mountain range
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    FT Series
    The world’s greatest angling adventures

    From Scottish salmon to giant trevally in the Seychelles, cast a line at these fishing holidays

    The flats of St François, Alphonse Island, the Seychelles
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
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    HTSI editor’s letter: make your escape

    From hiking in Madeira to the female freedivers of Japan’s Mie Prefecture

    A freediver in Ago Bay, Japan
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
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    Big helpings of hygge in Scandinavia’s archipelagos

    The islands between Sweden and Finland have become havens of designer cabins and new Nordic cooking

    Aerial view of small forested islands with wooden cabins
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
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    An off-piste ski adventure — in June

    A series of late storms have drawn obsessive skiers back to the Alps

  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
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    Riding the Tour de France — in Italy

    For the first time, cycling’s biggest race will start in Italy, and the route is ideal for amateurs to follow too

    A man in red top, bike helmet and sunglasses cycles between shoppers and yellow-stone buildings
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
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    Across Andalusia on horseback

    With long days in the saddle and nights under canvas, a new trek offers deep immersion in a landscape few visitors ever see

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
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    The man about to leap from an 8,000-metre peak

    Tim Howell is preparing not just to climb one of the world’s tallest mountains, but to jump off it — and make wingsuiting history

    A man leaps off the precipice of a mountain into a deep long fjord below
  • Saturday, 30 March, 2024
    Travel
    Shortcuts: Explora launches new expeditions and the ‘power-hour’ lunch comes to London

    Pioneering Chilean company looks beyond its luxury-lodge model; Michelin-starred restaurants tout express eating

    A team of adventurers stand on the prow of a ship in a remote bay surrounded by snow-covered mountains
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Travel
    Postcard from Switzerland: how I survived an avalanche

    The advice — try to ‘swim’, create a breathing space with your hands — is not so easy to follow when you’re tumbling in a wave of freezing snow

    Illustration of four men caught in an avalanche with a swallow flying above them
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Travel
    Taking the helm for an offshore sailing adventure

    On a 900-mile passage from the Canaries to Cape Verde, even complete novices can get a thrilling taste of life at sea

    On the deck of a sailing boat at sea at night
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    HTSI
    The beauty and brutalism of the Great Balkan Rally

    A classic adventure on a 700-mile motor rally from Budapest to the Adriatic 

    A vintage BMW 2 Series passes through a town outside Sarajevo
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Travel
    Hiking the ‘Machu Picchu of Tenerife’

    The island’s temperate winter climate makes it ideal for a walking holiday — taking in verdant and lunar-like volcanic landscapes, remote villages and high-altitude vineyards

    View from above of a mountainous walking track with small houses surrounded by greenery
  • Saturday, 13 January, 2024
    Travel
    James Bond’s ski club celebrates 100 years of racing — and partying

    In the usually sleepy Swiss village of Mürren, the pioneering Kandahar Club is gearing up for its centenary

  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
    HTSI
    The dangerous art of the freedive

    One writer goes into the deep

    The author freedives in the Mediterranean
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