Reviews

Croatia is a destination that grabs your heart and doesn’t let go.

Packing for Europe’s most famous hike can feel like a mountainous challenge itself. We’ve got you covered.

If you want to learn glacier travel, Mount Baker is the classroom I’d choose, with 3 routes to start on.

Fires lit, cocktails mixed, powder outside the door: the best way to hut-to-hut ski in Colorado’s San Juans.

I think Thórsmörk looks crafted by the gods themselves, and these four trails let you feel it.

Matterhorn is a picture-perfect natural monument with monumental mountaineering history. Climbing it is, naturally, a monumental achievement.

Cars are banned in Cinque Terre’s villages, so 120 km (74 mi) of trails are the way in. I’ll show you my favorites.

My first year guiding Mt. Baker: 43 nights in a tent, 14 summits, 6 turnarounds. I loved it, but I’m also questioning it.

My mentor says backcountry skiing is like golf: you wouldn’t use one club. Here’s my guide to your first tour.

Tuckerman Ravine launched American extreme skiing, and I’ll show you how to build up to its best lines.

In a lush Andean valley, skirted on both sides by colossal volcanoes, climbing Ecuador’s Cotopaxi is a trial by fire.

Sedona’s red-rock trails started as illegal singletrack, and now they’re world-class. Find out where to ride.

Telluride is a gold mine for hikers. Let me show you the 5 hikes I’d never skip.

Let’s make sure there’s a place for everyone on our trails, no matter how big or small people want to send it. 

I photograph the northern lights over Iceland’s strangest landscapes, with advice on where, when, and how.

About 25,000 people hike to Machu Picchu every year, and most take the same trail. These are the other ways in.

Everyone knows the Dolomites, but Tuscany has over 4,000 mountains. I’ll show you the ones above Garfagnana.

Six different worlds and all four seasons in a single hike: that’s Laugavegur, and I’ve got tips for doing it right.

Trekking Kilimanjaro is like walking from the equator to Antarctica, and as a local guide I know the routes.

Every White Mountain trail builder asked who needs switchbacks, and these 4 steep hikes are my proof they’re right.

Not a climber? Mt. Rainier still has trails for you. Five day hikes, picked by a guide.

With over two million lakes and rivers, canoeing Canada’s labyrinths of waterways unlocks a vast wilderness you can’t get to any other way.

In my early Chamonix days, climbers spoke in code: 5A, 6B, crimp here, jug there. Then I found the valley’s other side.

As a Banff local, I’ll let you in on a secret that starts at the gondola: the quiet Sulphur Mountain Highline hike.

Shasta rises 10,000 feet above its base, crevasses included, and it’s where I send climbers who want to level up.

For me, hiking Yellowstone is like stepping back in time, and 3 days is enough to watch its wildlife.

You can kayak to about 25 tidewater glaciers in one 20-hour day. I’ve spent 300-plus days paddling Prince William Sound.

3 am north of the Arctic Circle, still daylight, and I can see an untracked ski line from the boat. Welcome to Lyngen.

Moss, ferns, then a beach or a mountaintop: Olympic is 3 worlds in 1, and these are my 5 hikes.

Thru-hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail showed me I hardly knew my childhood backyard—and the ideas I held about what’s possible.

Quartzite, cryptic sequences, and tip-toe traverses: I’m back at my climbing roots at Devil’s Lake.