Adventure Travel

According to Frank Hugelmeyer, the outdoor industry has an elitism problem. The president of the RV Industry Association—and former CEO of Outdoor Industry Association (OIA)—believes that both groups need to relax how they define themselves, because the outdoor and RV worlds are ...read more

I grip the rail, jostle in my seat, and squint my eyes as the air whips my hair around. The ocean’s teal-toned abyss in front of our saltwater flat boat is eerily vacant—at least, above the water. We are west of Great Abaco, one of 700 islands in The Bahamas, in the saltwater ...read more

"Do you have a boat?” Eric “Hende” Henderson asks me. He’s the owner and founder of Meteorite PR, and the mastermind behind what seems at first blush like a hare-brained idea: packraft to OR.  I shake my head. He reaches inside the doorway of evo, a Denver retail shop providing ...read more

Hiking is fun until it's not. And it's usually not when you have a massive blister bubbling under your big toe or your backpack rubs the skin on your hips and shoulders raw. None of these are immediately life threatening—unless you don't treat some of them in time—but they're a ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors.Ride the elevator with Tim Nickles, founder and CEO of Roofnest.Roofnest started on a road trip to Moab with a big group of friends getting ...read more

There is such thing as overtourism and it's leaving countries in worse shape than before tourists invaded.Adventure Travel Trade Association President Shannon Stowell starts off his TEDx Talk grim, with stories that challenge the common assumption that mass tourism generates ...read more

Most dinner party hosts worry about napkins, awkward relationships, or overcooked chicken. But Neil Laughton was more concerned with making sure his guests didn’t freeze to death.On April 29, after a 3-week trek to Mt. Everest’s North Col— 23,031 feet up—Laughton's team of about ...read more

Upon crawling out the woods after hiking many miles, you can't bear to crack open another bag of trail mix or freeze-dried rice and beans. You'd much rather replenish your calories with a hot meal that doesn't require mixing with water boiled over your camp stove. We've rounded ...read more

“The questions that we are asking ourselves in small rural communities are ubiquitous globally,” said Luis Benitez, Director of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office (OREC), as he kicked off the three-day Mountain Ventures Summit in Telluride, Colorado, this month. The ...read more

Ride the elevator with Jeremy Collins and Benji Thrasher, founders of the lifestyle apparel company, Meridian Line.Collins is an award-winning artist and storyteller. And Thrasher is a veteran outdoor designer. Before Meridian Line, Collins worked as a full-time artist, ...read more

Fifty times this year, Randy Propster will roll up to outdoor retail shops and various festivals in a flashy expedition vehicle and captivate an audience for 90 minutes by talking about the latest and greatest gear as wells as trail-tested tips and skills. He might even tell a ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors.Ride the elevator with Mike Baker, founder and CEO of SOLE.Years ago, SOLE began a journey down a new sustainable path, committing ourselves to ...read more

Two years ago, Nate and Steph Yarbrough, both now 29, posted their first YouTube video announcing their move into a van. Both their channel and blog, Adventure in a Backpack, were created as journals to share their new lives working full-time on the road with family and friends. ...read more

Clouds brushing past the iconic summit pyramid, basecamp bustling with whipping prayer flags and blinking lights, headlamps moving up through the Khumbu Icefall, Namche Bazaar at sunrise, and the Milky Way so clear and pixilated it looks like an artist's rendering.Elia Saikaly ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors.Ride the elevator with Haley Robison, Kammok founder.Kammok's All Adventure Camp Blankets are packable, three-part kits that are fast, intuitive, ...read more

Royal Robbins, the U.S. outdoor and travel apparel company founded by the iconic climber with the same name, has been acquired.Fenix Outdoor International AG announced Wednesday that it has signed an agreement and acquired 100 percent of Royal Robbins, with consolidation to be ...read more

Elevator Pitches are written by the company and edited for space and clarity. They do not express the opinions of SNEWS or its editors.Ride the elevator with Lawson Hammock Founder Wes Johnson:Our Gravity Chair is an extremely compact, portable, lightweight "hammock chair" that ...read more

For almost every day of Charley Friedman’s life growing up, his commute included a ferry ride from Peaks Island to Portland, Maine, the state's "biggest little city." Everything he'd need each day, from a rain shell to his laptop and schoolwork to his lunch, had to fit into one, ...read more

In order to complete the full running loop on a recent Run Wild Retreats trip in Iceland, a group of 15 women needed to cross an unexpectedly high, rushing river. Elinor Fish, the retreat group’s founder, watched on as one woman’s trepidation turned into elation as she crossed ...read more

The adventure travel industry is thinking about the footprint it leaves behind. Beyond the tourism dollars outfitters bring to remote parts of the world, Chris Baker, a former Teach For America corps member and Yale University graduate (where he spent a semester in Nepal), wanted ...read more

In 2012, MPOWERD was founded and the Luci light was created – an inflatable solar light with the goal of making an affordable clean energy product that people could use in any situation. Luci taps into a source of light that’s limitless and readily available to everyone on our ...read more

For the second year, a piece by GLP Films takes home first place in Adventure Travel Trade Association’s “Adventure in Motion” film contest. This time around The Man at the End of the World won. The film takes place in Tierra del Fuego, Chile through the eyes of Don Germán. He ...read more

With a family legacy dating back to 1965, Ecōths is a men’s clothing brand that brings together the triple bottom line of People, Planet and Product. As the “brother” company to family-owned and -operated Aventura Clothing, we balance business and goodness with our 3 Campaign, ...read more

Ride the elevator with Seek Dry Goods co-founders Amanda and Larry McMahon. The idea for Seek Dry Goods began back in July 2016 in the village of Chamonix, France. We had just completed the incredible 100-mile Tour du Mont Blanc trek and all we wanted was a new t-shirt to bring ...read more