Category Archives: Travel

This week’s Big Picture winner – and recipient of a Nikon Coolpix P300 camera worth £249.99 – is Kate Cooper of Allen’s Green, Hertfordshire, for this image of washing day in Goa, India.

For more than three weeks, Felicity Aston has been skiing toward the South Pole pulling two sledges packed with supplies. Aston is attempting to become the first woman to cross Antarctica alone, and has covered about one-third of the journey … Continue reading →

A nice deserted beach on the caribbean coast close to Puerto Viejo. Costa Rica’s Caribbean Coast is, in some ways, everything the Pacific Coast isn’t.

People sunbathe at a public beach in this aerial view of the Dead Sea, December 5, 2011.

It my have hosted some of the 20th century’s most famous celebrities, from Charlie Chaplin to Marlene Dietrich, but Berlin’s Adlon Kemplinski hotel will always be most famous as the place where Michael Jackson dangled his infant son out of … Continue reading →

In this portrait, rock climber and businessman Yvon Chouinard can be seen sorting his equipment before a climb. Chouinard set up the outdoor clothing and equipment company Patagonia in 1972, and is credited with several important advances in climbing technology.

Adrian Hayes, who has won two Guinness world records for his polar expeditions, is currently making a 1,500 km journey across the Arabian desert, in honour of the legendary “barefoot explorer” Wilfred Thesiger (pictured). Thesiger journeyed across the region in … Continue reading →

Travelers make their way to the gates at the American Airlines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 23 in Los Angeles, Calif.