Gaynor Leeper quit her job as a communications manager in London to work in adventure tourism

Last summer a soaring death toll prompted soul searching among wingsuit flyers. As this year’s season gathers pace, Simon Usborne talks to participants — and their relatives — about why they continue to jump and whether the sport can be made safe

The Andean Explorer brings comfort and cocktails to the high Andes

With little eulogy, a golden era of travel has come to an end

Patagonia’s spectacular Torres del Paine national park is the best place on earth to track the elusive ‘ghost-cat’

In the Swiss village of Wengen, a new event is turning ski racing on its head

He has rowed the Atlantic and cycled round the world but in 2016 Alastair Humphreys found true adventure closer to home

A new virtual reality experience lets anyone explore the mountain, but how does it compare to the real thing?

The newest and longest of the ‘EuroVelo’ bike routes traces the old Iron Curtain from Norway to the Black Sea. Tim Moore set out to be the first to complete it

A week-long ride across Sicily culminates with an ascent of Europe’s tallest active volcano

Author AD Miller goes on a journey through the history of a ‘misunderstood’ state

Twenty years after he reported on the Troubles, Martin Fletcher returns to Northern Ireland to enjoy country lanes, cliffs and castles on a 200-mile cycle along the Antrim coast

A pirate’s hide-out has been reborn as a $5,000-a-night retreat, offering privacy, luxury, white sands and 3,000 giant tortoises

Why Mallorca is a magnet for cyclists

A steak-and-Malbec fuelled adventure in the Andes

Tourists are flocking to Myanmar but a bike offers an escape from the crowds