57hours Magazine

Sleep on a boat, fly in by helicopter, or ski a volcano. See which one fits your level.

Start your year somewhere extraordinary.

Arrive as a stranger, leave with a group chat.

Come see how a country that protects about 25% of its land looks from the inside.

On a large cruise ship, you often see Greenland through glass. We touch it.

Stop waiting for someone to join the trip. Let the trip bring the someone.

Skip the noise of a thousand "best of" lists. These 5 are the ones our guides actually book for themselves.

What if winter didn’t have to end? I found the loophole.

Want to wake up somewhere new every morning without ever repacking a bag? Here are Europe's best bike and boat tours.

Somewhere on day 4 or 5, the view stops people mid-step on this trail. Even the ones who’ve climbed real mountains before.

What you leave out of your pack matters more than what you put in.

Everyone hiking the John Muir Trail is standing in the same line, and there’s a dirt road that lets you skip it entirely.

A hike with no trail. A pub with ghosts. A citadel under four centuries of jungle. Fifteen hikes, none ordinary.

People assume Icelandic skiing is a side trip. I built an entire lodge betting they’re wrong.

The best ski terrain in the Rockies sits behind park boundaries. I know the way in.

I built a company on one idea: women hike differently when it’s just us.

Croatia kept an entire island hidden from the world as a military secret until 1992. Now I take people there by kayak.

Most people who see Half Dome never climb it. Here’s what changes when you decide to be the exception.

Every guide has a place they don’t really want to share. This is mine.

Ecuador has the Galapagos, the Andes, and the Amazon. People usually come for one of them, and I’ve spent 13 years making the case for all 3.

Tuscany’s western coast is about to become one of Europe’s most talked-about mountain bike destinations, and at the moment almost nobody knows it exists.

The Swiss guides came here in 1885 and never left, and neither does anyone else who finds this place.

The choice between the W Trek and the O Circuit will shape your entire trip, so let me show you how to get it right.

I’ve watched blind climbers stand where sighted ones give up. The mountain isn’t the obstacle, your mind is.

Friluftsliv signifies joy that only comes from being outside in nature. Molde is where I finally understood what it meant.

Most people leave Japan having seen the famous version of it. Shikoku cycling exists to show you the real one.

Twenty-two tours on the Laugavegur hiking trail, and I still get asked the same questions at the end of every single one.

Iceland’s most extraordinary hiking terrain is not on any trail map. I know because I spent years finding it.

I’ve been guiding the Camino since 2006. The hikers get all the attention, but the cyclists get the whole picture. Let me show you why.

The longer you climb in Istria, the more you realize it’s not about finding the best crag, it’s about learning how to use all of them.

Yosemite isn’t about what you see first, it’s about what you discover when you go a little farther and know where to look.

If you think the best hiking in Iceland is just waterfalls and selfies, you haven’t walked where the Vikings did.