The world’s longest ski race – aptly named Inferno – is by turns exhilarating and brutal, a no-holds-barred endurance trial that has its competitors returning time after time. Minty Clinch signs up for a fiendish challenge in the Swiss Alps
Following in the paddle strokes of second world war canoe heroes, James Henderson aims for Leros island – albeit with rather less stealth.
Darrell Hartman escapes New York to climb and squeeze through America’s most spectacular desert rock formations.
Jbel Toubkal in Morocco is an exhilarating initiation into mountaineering – and far more so in the midst of an unexpected blizzard, says Charlie Norton.
Racing over 100km around Table Mountain in the heat – and wearing super-tight Lycra – James Henderson pedals furiously after his youth.
Jack Dyson is strapped into a 600-horsepower racing machine and ready to push 150mph in the burning hot Las Vegas landscape. Can he keep his cool?
A new venture aims to get travellers off their sun loungers
Taking one very deep breath, Tarquin Cooper plunges to the bottom of Indonesian waters to spear his supper – or at least try to.
Across wind-ravaged plains and up icy mountain trails, Tarquin Cooper takes on a buttock-breaking 70km ride in the company of several hundred wild Icelandic horses.
Saddled, booted and manned up, Tarquin Cooper experiences the epic Sahara landscape on a fascinating, exhilarating – and profoundly gruelling – horse ride.
Braving sheer cliffs and heat-induced delirium, James Henderson treks across South Africa’s Cederberg Mountains in the footsteps of a legendary botanist.
Charlie Norton hurtles through an extreme weekend of abseiling, canyoning, whitewater rafting and more...
Following in the footsteps of the young Lawrence of Arabia, James Henderson hikes across Syria in the high-summer heat to the awe-inspiring edifice of Salah ad-Din.