News & More
For several years, Natural Habitat Adventures has been partners with Explorers’ Corner, a unique active adventure travel company that explores some of the earth’s wildest and most interesting places.
Nature & Wildlife
The gentle Thomsen River has no rapids to interfere with placid viewing of the world’s largest musk ox herd – or other wildlife and Arctic scenery that makes Banks Island so captivating!
News & More
In 1719, when cartographer John Senex was drawing a map of the English empire in America, there was still a lot that was unknown. The little information about this “new land” that he did have came from the accounts of various Jesuit and French explorers, and not much of it matched.
Conservation
Will more visitors to Greenland—one of the world’s last remaining tourism frontiers—help raise concern about global warming and its effects on our planet’s diminishing ice?
Antarctica & Arctic
Big dreams of exploration were not uncommon in the late 1800s and early 1900s. But one explorer may have taken such aspirations to the next level: in 1895, at a London conference on polar exploration, a Swedish engineer named Salomon August Andree declared his intention to reach the North Pole via hot-air balloon.
News & More
National Geographic Explorer and Filmmaker James Cameron makes a triumphant return from the bottom of the Challenger Deep, nearly seven miles below the ocean’s surface.
Travel Tales
Ever since the explorers of old used oral storytelling, flyers and published journals to spread word of streets lined with gold, fountains of youth or rich silks and spices, people have been using mass media to motivate others to go on adventures.
News & More
When early, intrepid European explorers first began trekking through the New World in the late 1400s, they were awed by the strikingly different cultures they encountered. But they also came to notice something else: remarkable physical similarities between the Asian peoples they had seen during their many travels and these new, soon-to-be-known-as “Native Americans.”
Alaska
How would you rather experience Alaska? With 10,000 cruise ship passengers, or from the seat of a kayak in Misty Fjords in the solitude of wilderness?
Nature & Wildlife
Looking for the ultimate adventure? Travel by dog team with Polar Inuit mushers to the Ultima Thule – the legendary ends of the earth – in Northwest Greenland.
Travel Tales
James Dziezynski is a hard-core adventurer and freelance writer from Boulder, Colorado, who had the good fortune to paddle Greenland’s wild east coast with Explorers’ Corner. Read his account here!
Travel Tips
For 2012, resolve to turn off the Internet, tune out the text and rediscover your inner self and core values — ideally on a wilderness adventure far away from technological tethers.
