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Responsible travel needs to be more responsible. With all the talk about responsible travel, carbon neutral trips, and eco-tours in the adventure travel world these days, you’d think companies are really operating in a fundamentally different way. Not so.

When it comes to adventure travel, while platitudes of responsible travel rule the surface message, [...]

I’ve seen this over and over, trekkers trekking for weeks on their vacation trek of a lifetime to Everest Base Camp on a standard Everest Trek expecting a view of Everest, only to find, doh, they can’t see the mountain. Granted, from the nondescript dusty hill of 5,545 meter Kala Patar, a few miles [...]

a href=”http://adventu.re/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/annapurna-circuit.jpg”>Sunrise behind the still-unclimbed Macchapuchare or “Fish Tail Peak” from Poon Hill on the Annapurna Circuit Trek, Nepal Photo: Dan Passler

Newly-built roads now reach nearly all the way around Nepal’s Annapurna Circuit, the most popular long trek in the world. Is the journey is still worth the effort? Probably not, if [...]

One of the most surprising things I found out when I began working for a large adventure travel company was that many of the “adventures” that the company billed to clients as “real life experiences” were actually canned and recycled shows for tourists. Case in point: Thuy, the one armed hat maker in [...]