Adventure

Chamonix to Zermatt: Skiing the Haute Route

Skiing the Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt

by Jean Pavillard
The Haute Route is one of the best known ski tours in the world – a true traverse moving along the spine of the Alps in France, Switzerland and Italy.

Presenting all the challenges of high alpine ski mountaineering, skiing the Haute Route entails crossing glaciers, scrambling peaks and passes, rappelling and crossing hidden crevasses.

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Skiing the Berner Oberland Traverse in Switzerland

by Jean Pavillard
A majestic ski mountaineering tour across the biggest glaciers of the Alps, the Berner Oberland Traverse in central Switzerland offers some of the most breathtaking views of the European Alps.

The Berner Oberland Traverse includes skiing over eight glaciers, starting at the Jungfraujoch and finishing in Munster, after enjoying an incredible descent of over 6,000 vertical feet.

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Skiing Antarctica: A Guide to Cross Country Skiing at McMurdo Station

by Forrest McCarthy
Antarctica is a harsh continent. It is also a beautiful one.

Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered in snow and ice, a skiing paradise.

A crisp Antarctic breeze, a heightened heart rate, and a dreamlike setting provide the ideal elixir to burn off stress and recharge mind, body, and spirit.

Adventure

ad·ven·ture (noun)
1. an exciting or very unusual experience
2. participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises: the spirit of adventure
3. a bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome

Source: Dictionary.com

Great words: Exciting. Unusual. Bold. Risky. Uncertain.

Yet, adventure, and the associated words, mean something different to every one.

What is adventure?

For adventure athletes – it’s scaling the world’s highest mountains, polar expeditions, ski tours, riding bikes in excess of 60 mph.

For the rest of us, it may be a slightly less extreme version of adventure, but it’s adventure still the same. We hike & climb, we ride, we ski. We travel to new places. We experience new cultures, new foods – new adventures.