Stories

With several US stamps on my passport, I’d never actually ventured beyond the tourist traps of California and Las Vegas… until now.

The 12-kilometre trek from Aktru Base Camp should take about six hours to complete, up and back. But I’m not making good time – in fact, none of us are. And it’s not the altitude and thinning air that’s slowing us down.

What sort of person books a trip they know nothing about? Meet some of the travellers on Intrepid’s inaugural Uncharted Expedition, from Kazakhstan to Mongolia.

With only a GPS (Ger Positioning System) to guide Intrepid’s first-ever Uncharted Expedition, stumbling upon Mongolian hospitality is literally a given.

Cory Lee is changing the world for wheelchair users. He’s relied on a powered wheelchair since the age of four, when he was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, but that hasn’t slowed Cory down.

Like most disasters, it began with what I thought was a good idea at the time. Unlike most disasters, it involved a Finnish DJ and the Sahara.

18 months after breaking two legs and an arm in a car accident, one American lawyer never dreamed she’d be climbing Mt Batur in Bali.

Superb scenery, spectacular sunsets, scintillating stars – and a total eclipse of the sun.

A look of pity creeps across a person’s face when you tell them you didn’t go hot air ballooning in Cappadocia, Turkey. It’s like admitting you visited Paris and missed the Eiffel Tower, or politely passed on eating pizza in Naples.