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Your guide to extraordinary adventures around the globe.
Your guide to extraordinary adventures around the globe.
Somewhere in Nepal, on a trail that Google Maps confidently insisted was a road, I stood ankle-deep in a dry creek bed watching my phone’s blue dot suggest I keep walking straight into a hillside. The route had washed out…
My trekking poles have seen more weather than my umbrella. I’ve hiked into Ghorepani with rhododendrons dropping petals on my pack like confetti, and I’ve sat in a Namche teahouse listening to sleet hammer a tin roof, wondering why I…
My phone, the week before any road trip, looks like a cry for help. Three navigation apps, open and arguing with each other. A gas app. A camping app I haven’t touched since March. An audiobook app that’s already eaten…
Distance: ~130 km round trip | Duration: 12–16 days | Highest point: Kala Patthar, 5,545m | Difficulty: Moderate to Challenging There’s a particular kind of person who decides to trek to Everest Base Camp. They’re not, on the whole, mountaineers.…
Distance: 160–230 km | Duration: 11–20 days | Highest point: Thorong La Pass, 5,416m | Difficulty: Moderate to Challenging I am, by instinct, a planner. The kind of traveler who reads weather forecasts for places they haven’t booked yet. Who…
There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in the night before a trip. You’re staring at an open suitcase, wondering if you’ve packed too much, too little, or somehow managed both at once. Half your bed is covered in…
I once packed four books, two magazines, and a “light” 800-page novel for a nine-hour flight, and spent the entire time staring at the seatback map watching a tiny plane icon inch across the Atlantic at what I can only…
I spent three weeks before my first Nepal trek reading everything I could find about permits, only to land in Kathmandu and discover half of it was already out of date. A trekking agency I’d never contacted patiently explained that…
I once spent eleven hours building a color-coded spreadsheet for my cousin’s honeymoon. Flights, layovers, backup flights in case the first flights got cancelled, a tab for “restaurants in case the other restaurants are closed,” a tab for restaurants in…
For ten years, I booked flights the way some people play the lottery: on a hunch, usually at 1 a.m., always convinced I’d cracked some secret code the airlines didn’t want me to find. I had rules. Never book on…
