Adventure Travel

To answer the call for a less... rustic camping experience, glamping is the solution for even the most delicate adventure seekers.

A member of a British camping party that was attacked by a polar bear in northern Norway on Friday underwent a procedure on Sunday to remove the animal's teeth from his fractured skull.

Bumping around Europe to see old-world cities, museums and the like is always fun. But sometimes I like to have a mission, a journey, even a quest to guide my travels. Ten years ago, I tried to extend a business trip to Frankfurt, Germany with a side-trip to the Aachen area to the West where my uncle Eddie was killed during World War II, and then to his grave in Belgium; I had never been. But my trip was interrupted by the terrorist attacks on 9/11 back in the U.S. On the tenth anniversary of the attacks, I decided it was time to take care of unfinished business.

It's Shark Week in America and most of us will be celebrating in the traditional fashion, lazing on the couch, beer in hand, flinching occasionally on behalf of a seal or hapless tuna. While this is a noble tradition and should be in no way criticized, there exists a more adventurous alternative.

Photographer and Vimeo user Greg Kiss has uploaded a pretty sweet video of the Alps, shot between June and July of this year between France's Rhône-Alpes and Switzerland's Etat du Valais.