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What is Adventure Travel

Adventure travel encourages you to stretch your mind or your body--and often both--while having a wonderful time. when experiencing adventure travel it doesn't matter whether you are hiking up a mountain, swimming with dolphins or floating over an African veld in a hot air balloon. What counts is the new ways you see the world, make friends in foreign places and how you are pursuing your own definition of adventure travel.

How to Choose an Adventure Travel Company

Adventure travel is trendy, but not all companies offering such vacations have experience running these types of trips. Here are tips for choosing a reputable tour operator or outfitter, plus information about some experienced companies who are offering innovative trips.

What is Heli-skiing

Heli-skiing is flying to remote slopes or mountainsides in a helicopter, to go downhill, telemarking or cross country skiing. Many companies that offer heli-skiing also take snowboarders.

What is a Zip Line Adventure?

Zipline adventures let you soar from tree to tree in rain forests, across canyons and through a variety of landscapes, giving you a bird’s-eye view of the world surrounding you.

What Is Extreme Skiing in the Backcountry

Backcountry skiing or snowboarding is exploring ungroomed and unmarked terrain either just outside ski area boundaries or in remote areas. In Europe, this is often called “off-piste” skiing. This is definitely one version of "extreme" skiing and riding.