Adventure Travel

• Traveling Solo (GPP Travel/Globe Pequot, $17.95) — Eleanor Berman knows what it's like to travel alone; she has done it often enough. In Traveling Solo, she offers advice and ideas for more than 250 vacations. Among the many options are going on a learning vacation, participating in a volunteer...  

Let's face it, the economy isn't doing so hot, with the Dow spiraling down and gas prices still above $3 a gallon. And with less money to spend, skiers and snow riders -- from the powder hounds to the family vacationers -- may be more and more hesitant to purchase ski passes, reserve rooms and...  

It seems like once a week, someone comes up with a bad idea for the North Fork of the Flathead. Our friends in Canada propose coal mines in the headwaters (the latest scuttle is that a company is now doing test drilling for gold in Howell Creek, a main tributary of the river.)  

As it launches its greatly expanded 2009 brochure, award winning adventure holiday company Himalayan Kingdoms announces a name change, to Mountain Kingdoms. For more information, please visit www.mountainkingdoms.com.  

Travel Ad Network, the leading vertical ad network in travel and the web's largest travel information source in total audience, today announced the addition to its portfolio of G.A.P Adventures, the world's leading adventure travel company.  

Eagle Pass Heliskiing is a British Columbia based heli-skiing operating in the Monashee Mountains.  

For travelers who enjoy getting away from it all, online site for adventure travel iExplore has come up with a list of the world's top 10 hiking and trekking vacation spots.  

Triple-X Helicopter has proposed heli-skiing on both Stryker Ridge and on Coal and Winona ridges in the North Fork drainage.  

Frontier Airlines is excited to introduce a new online ski destination service that makes booking your dream ski vacation easier than mastering the bunny hill.  

(ARA) - If the typical tourist experience bores you to tears and you can't take yet another bus tour, adventure travel just might be for you. Among thrill-seeking travelers, Scotland is quickly becoming known as a popular, action-packed destination.  

An investor in a block-sized downtown redevelopment project in Whitefish has fallen victim to the Wall Street financial meltdown. But the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who heads up the project says he's not overly concerned about how his partner's financial problems might affect the project.  

In 1938, Nicholas Winton was set to go on a ski vacation when a friend called and asked him to help Jewish children flee the Nazis. The young stockbroker saved 660 children, including the mother and aunts of NPR reporter Kim Masters. Masters visits the 99-year-old Winton, who offers a lesson on...  

Valhalla Adventures entices those seeking uncut, deep powder. Now, the cat-ski operation is seeking to expand into the heli-skiing business. Fred Dietrich, owner of Valhalla Adventures, applied to the Stillwater Unit of the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation for a permit to run heli...  

Head out to the jungles of Africa, feed baby sharks off the Malaysian coast, or hitch a ride on a dog-sledge in Sweden. Welcome to the whole new world of adventure travel that Indians are getting hooked on to.  

“There’s all kinds of good stuff,” Dietrich said of the terrain potential. “I would say on average it would allow 2,000 to 3,500 vertical feet [runs], about twice what you get in a normal cat skiing operation.”