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Climbing the Grand Canyon
Not the world's deepest canyon, but possibly the most dramatic
Where Arizona, USA
How long 3 days, 2 nights
As well as almost unquantifiably vast vital statistics – the canyon is a mile deep, anywhere between 600 feet and 19 miles wide and 277 miles long – it has a unique profile, dropping abruptly off from the flat Colorado Plateau like a biblical crack in the earth.
Cycling in Morocco
Peddle-power past almond orchards and painted mountains
Where Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
How long 8 days
The cyclist's aching muscles meet nature's bare bones crossing Morocco's Anti-Atlas mountain range.
Horseback trekking in Kyrgyzstan
Breathtaking mountains, vast plateaus and lonely yurts
Where Tian Shan mountain range, Kyrgyzstan
How long 8 days
It was eight hours since I'd eaten a Murray Mint – my breakfast – and I was famished. In the last 24 hours I'd been caught in a high-altitude snowstorm, one of my friends had been heli-lifted off a mountain and, with the other 11 members of my expedition, I had set up an emergency overnight camp with only stale bread, two dozen Bounty bars and assorted tins of fish and vegetables to eat.
Horseback trekking in Kyrgyzstan
Kiteboarding in Egypt
Wipeouts, air time, teabagging and donkey dicks!
Where Abu Soma, Red Sea
How long 1 week
Kiteboarding rookie Cyrus Shahrad faces the fear and gets rigged up for the ride of his life on the Red Sea.
Sailing in Greece
Learn to sail in just one week!
Where Sivota, Greece
How long 1 week
Self-confessed landlubber Helen Ochyra sets herself a challenge – learn how to sail a dinghy, single-handed, in just a week.
Snowboarding in Japan
An unlikely thrill-seeker's paradise
Where Hokkaido, Japan
How long 1 day
Hiking up 800 vertical metres in order to snowboard back down – a run that a handful of articles in snowboard magazines over the last decade have described in language normally reserved for depicting the lives of saints.
Stalking Rhinos in Nepal
Rhinos, and tigers and bears – oh my!
Where Chitwan National Park, Nepal
How long 3-4 days
Tracking the one-horned rhinoceros on an elephant’s back in Nepal is exhilarating fun – but it’s a different matter when you do it on foot.
Trekking on Fox Glacier
Pick your way up the icy face of New Zealand's Fox Glacier
Where South Island, New Zealand
How Long 6-7 hours
Our guide carved a new path through the ice with his pick and – feeling like explorers scaling the ice for the first time – we walked in a line behind him, literally in his footsteps for fear of slipping down a crevasse.
Trekking the Inca Trail
Beat a path through to the Inca citadel of Machu Piccchu
Where Vilcabamba, Peru
How long 12 days
How do you get a mule up a mountain? Try shouting, 'Mula, carajo, mula!' No English expression quite captures the fricative force of 'carajo', but 'damn you, mule' is about right.
White-water rafting in Zambia
Battling the elements on the Zambezi river
Where Zambezi river, Zambia
How long 8 days
With a rapid dubbed "commercial suicide", nerves of steel and a good supply of adrenaline are vital when white-water rafting on the Zambezi.
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