On the run past Lake Rotoiti on New Zealand’s South Island ©Tim Cuff From ASIAN AND AUSTRALIAN DESTINATIONS Jan 4, 2013

A week’s run in New Zealand

Jonathan Thompson takes on the new year challenge of a journey on foot – and at speed – through the scenic valleys of the South Island

Destination inspiration

Survival expert Bear Grylls during the shoot for the Dos Equis Most Interesting Academy webisodes which feature Grylls? top urban survival tips and will be available online at MostInterestingAcademy.com on June 18. Bear Grylls is a distinguished instructor for the Dos Equis Most Interesting Academy?s ?Survival in the Modern Era? course. (Casey Rodgers / AP Images for Dos Equis) **EXCLUSIVE****EXCLUSIVE**
Explore the world with noted adventurers and award-winning writers such as Bear Grylls, Jan Morris and Lionel Shriver
Dates and details of global events and spectacles, such as Sydney’s Crave Food Fair (above), to build an adventure, a holiday or a trip around
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A look at what the country can offer to urbanites and adventurers alike
Exploring the towering icebergs at the Canadian Arctic ©David De Vleeschauwer Dec 28, 2012

A sub-zero safari

High in the Canadian Arctic, a firm set up to assist film crews and scientists is now leading tourists on wildlife expeditions

Climbing past the village of Le Sarrat ©Peter Drinkell Oct 26, 2012

Lionel Barber’s Pyrenees challenge

The FT editor joins a group of ‘mamils’ (middle-aged men in Lycra) for a gruelling weekend ride through mountainous Tour de France territory

Skiing the Vallée Blanche ©Robin Gautier From WINTER SPORTS Oct 19, 2012

The big draw

Dramatic scenery and challenging slopes keep top skiers coming back

A tandem skydive with Everest in the background ©Wendy Smith Oct 19, 2012

The expert selection: Amazing places to try skydiving

Beginners who want more than a one-off jump should consider taking the Accelerated Free Fall course in Sibson, UK

Two aerobatic planes flying over the Hoover Dam ©Sam Morris From NORTH AMERICAN DESTINATIONS Sep 14, 2012

Flying for beginners

Matthew Garrahan tries Las Vegas’s latest thrill: the chance for total novices to pilot aerobatic planes in aerial dogfights

One of Goldsworthy’s 8ft-high ‘Sentinelles’ in the Réserve Géologique de Haute-Provence ©Corbis From EUROPEAN DESTINATIONS Aug 24, 2012

High art and hiking boots

A walking trail in the mountains of southern France explores the work of Andy Goldsworthy

Imogen Stubbs and her son Jesse ©Jesse Nunn From ASIAN AND AUSTRALIAN DESTINATIONS Aug 17, 2012

Travels with my teenager

Could Imogen Stubbs persuade her teenage son to put down his phone long enough to appreciate a trip to Malaysia?

Pilot cutters racing in the Fal near St Mawes ©Classic Sailing Aug 10, 2012

Postcard from ... Cornwall

A holiday company at the helm of a revival in pilot cutters offers trips along the county’s south coast

Magma chamber of Thrihnukagigur volcano ©K.Maack Jul 6, 2012

Journey into an Icelandic volcano

Iceland’s latest tourism experience takes visitors on a day trip to the centre of the earth

Jun 22, 2012

Cycling’s Grand Tour

With the Tour de France a week away,Tim Moore discovers the perfect hotel for cyclists – a château in the shadow of the Alps that combines serious riding with serious comfort

Jun 9, 2012

Diesel in paradise

The outlying islands of French Polynesia rely on the infrequent visits of the Aranui 3, a supply ship that brings food and fuel - and tourists

May 12, 2012

Heavenly Hawaii

Golden beaches, film sets and self-help gurus – Pico Iyer discovers numerous ways to escape reality on the island of Kauai

Apr 7, 2012

Reinhold Messner’s favourite treks

The world’s greatest living climber picks treks from Nepal to Chile

Mar 30, 2012

Desert patrol

The empty sands of Oman make an unlikely, but ideal, destination for a birdwatching trip, writes Robin Oakley

Feb 17, 2012

Submergers and acquisitions

Elisabeth Eaves goes for a dive in the latest must-have plaything for billionaires – a personal submarine

From EUROPEAN DESTINATIONS Feb 3, 2012

The Alpine railway

One hundred years ago, the Jungfrau Railway helped make the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland one of the continent’s supreme destinations. On board the train Jan Morris finds a world where science fiction becomes ‘science fact’

From AFRICAN DESTINATIONS Jan 20, 2012

My winter retreat

After 40 years of visiting Africa, Max Hastings has found the perfect place to write and relax – not a hotel but a Kenyan ranch for rent

Jan 17, 2012

Aurora hunters

With experts predicting the most spectacular Northern Lights for a decade, a new travel company is using meteorological data to seek out the best vantage points. But will nature oblige?

From WINTER SPORTS Dec 16, 2011

Himalayan horizons - by helicopter

Three miles up in the Himalayas with nothing in sight but snow and rock, Ekow Eshun has his first taste of high-altitude snowboarding

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