Dolomites, Trentino is a stunning mountain destination in Italy.
When buying mountain travel insurance, it’s important to get the right travel insurance for your mountain holiday.
Having specialist cover is essential if you’re thinking of going caving, kayaking, mountain biking, mountaineering, rock climbing, white-water rafting or other mountain pursuits.
The unsung heroes are the Porters and Sherpas who make it possible to climb at these altitudes. Photo credit: Dave Bouskill.
Photographer Dave Bouskill contributed this guest photo essay on the Everest Region of the Himalayas in Nepal.
He is one half of Canada’s Adventure Couple and photographer at ThePlanetD.com.
After a decade lighting feature films and television, I switched careers and took my knowledge of shaping and manipulating light for motion pictures to stills photography.
I have been traveling full-time for the past two years documenting my adventures through my camera lens.
One of these projects was the Mongol Rally in which I drove through 15 countries from England to Mongolia to raise money for charity.
You can follow me on Facebook at ThePlanetD.
Legendary British mountaineer Kenton Cool successfully summitted Mount Everest for the 9th time yesterday, Friday May 6, 2011.
Cool made the first 3G call from the Everest summit to his wife Jazz (see video above) followed by the one of the world’s first Tweets on Twitter from the summit.
British climber Kenton Cool reached the summit of Mount Everest for an eighth time earlier today.
“I love Everest. To have summited once is mildly insane, to have summited for an eighth time is utter madness. Why eight times? Why not”, said Cool, 36, in message relayed from the summit.
Fancy learning mountaineering in China? Then take a look at the new Adventure Awaits experience at Fairmont Yangcheng Lake in Kunshan, China.
The program is part of the new Apprentice-Trips by Fairmont program offered by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts worldwide.
Situated in Yangcheng Lake Park, this waterfront hotel will provide an experienced mountain guide to teach the ins and outs of mountaineering. The package will be available April 1 – October 31, 2010 and include rock climbing activities, accommodation and buffet breakfast for two.
For more info, check out Fairmont.com.
Image courtesy of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts.
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