Adventure Travel

One night in 1997, fuelled by boredom, trainee ship bartender Erika Boyero filled some empty bottles with handwritten notes and threw them overboard in Norway. Last week, she met with the Tasmanian woman who found one of her messages.

After more than a year of sailing and thousands of nautical miles covered, Dan Turner completes a race around the globe in the boat he built in his driveway.

Google Maps has made city driving a dream, but it's putting lives at risk in the bush. Meet the mapmakers taking on Australia's roughest roads to try to change that.

Two new airstrips have been unveiled in outback SA, opening the door to what businesses are calling "slow tourism", which attracts fewer but wealthier tourists.

Amid all the adventure and growth, I've noticed a surprisingly quiet shift I didn't expect: my relationship with shopping.

There is no lounging by the pool for these travellers, who are spending a week swimming the remote waters of the Turkish Lycian coast.

Middle Percy Island is a rare gem where boaties can come ashore and wander through thousands of mementos left by travellers from across the globe. 

One man, one little yellow Vespa and a 12,000-kilometre road trip to attend every Ashes Test.

Being in the middle of nowhere, you learn what really matters. You find yourself experiencing things with unbridled passion, without shame or second-guessing.

Hundreds of hikers are still trapped at an elevation of more than 4,900 metres as rescuers work to clear deep snow.

A broken leg fails to stop a West Australian woman and her brother from taking on the gruelling La Petite Trotte à Léon through France, Italy and Switzerland.

A professional jockey and her husband, who had never ridden a horse until three years ago, finish third in the world's toughest horse race.

From the iconic tale of Christopher McCandless, to an Alaskan's death-defying dance in the Australian desert, to extreme reality TV shows, we're obsessed with survival. So what is it about these stories that we find so fascinating?

Italians are relatively unknown for their love of country music. But this classical-turned-western singer from Milan is making a name for herself performing in outback Queensland.

Travellers wanting to reach the tip of Cape York Peninsula can only do so by crossing the Jardine River ferry. But it has broken down for the fourth time in as many weeks, stranding tourists and locals on both sides.

The Kimberley is a land defined by its extremes: a wild climate, harsh terrain and remarkable biodiversity. Join Nyikina man Mark Coles Smith as he guides us on a journey through his ancestral lands, celebrating the people, places and animals that define this extraordinary part of the world.

The adventure tourism industry says it faces a shortage of trained guides after TAFE NSW cut crucial ropes training units from outdoor education courses.

Just hours into their WA road trip Melina Gitton and Florian Crepinior had a disastrous run in with a kangaroo. But locals in Nannup were quick to help them out.

A 102-year-old restored Citroën will retrace the first circumnavigation of Australia exactly a century after the feat was achieved by the same model.

Kate and Kriss Hardman are determined to make joyful memories with their three young children as they travel around Australia under the cloud of breast and testicular cancers.