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Adventure holidays

  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    FT SeriesCatch up with HTSI’s top stories – from the perfect ski hotel to how to pimp your brain power
    I vowed never to share this perfect ski hotel – until now

    Hotel Bellevue des Alpes is a piste of perfection. Please don’t go there

    The view from Arvengarten towards Jungfrau
  • Wednesday, 8 October, 2025
    FT SeriesPink Snow 2025: a winter sports special
    First tracks in the forests of Kazakhstan

    A ski adventure in the east of the country combines touring, cat-skiing and chairlifts with stays in hotels, yurts and back-country cabins. The real draw, though, is mile after mile of untracked powder

    A lone skier in bright winter gear treks uphill through a serene, snow-covered forest of tall pine trees.
  • Saturday, 4 October, 2025
    Travel
    I am Robohiker! — testing the exoskeleton that promises to take hikers further, faster

    Wearing the Hypershell, the Welsh mountains are like a walk in the park — but is it cheating?

    A man walks up a hill wearing the exoskeleton over his clothes, which looks like a harness that runs from his waist to his knees.
  • Saturday, 27 September, 2025
    FT SeriesPink Snow 2025: a winter sports special
    Canada’s lonely temple to the joy of skiing

    Deep in the British Columbian wilderness, Battle Abbey is pioneering a new, more comfortable version of ski touring 

    Two cabins on a snowy mountain slope surrounded by pine trees, with distant rugged peaks under a clear sky at dusk.
  • Saturday, 9 August, 2025
    Travel
    Tierra del Fuego: the wild archipelago at the end of the Earth

    Beauty, mystery and a story of colonial folly in the pristine wilderness at the southern tip of the Americas

    A woman looks at snow-capped mountains from a boat
  • Friday, 8 August, 2025
    HTSI
    The best kit for festival goers and cautious campers

    What to pack for a weekend under canvas (or Airstream)

    Jetboil Flash 1.0l stove, £149.99
  • Saturday, 12 July, 2025
    Travel
    The anti-heatwave holiday: a two-day trek down the Alps’ biggest glacier

    A hike along Switzerland’s Aletsch offers escape from the summer heat — but comes with a poignant sense of time running out

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    FT SeriesThe HTSI health and fitness special 2025
    In search of the ultimate surf experience? Felippe Dal Piero is the man to know

    Mahalo Experience offers extreme waves and unforgettable locations – often with just 24 hours’ notice

    Felippe Dal Piero of Mahalo Experience at a beach near Pavones in southern Costa Rica
  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Travel
    No phones, no other people: 12 days of wilderness immersion on Canada’s Bloodvein river

    In Manitoba, a 125-mile canoe adventure combines the thrills of running rapids with the joys of disconnection

    Two people in life jackets and helmets in a canoe use paddles to navigate white water on a river banked by pine trees and rocks
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    HTSI
    Meet Christian ‘Chrigel the Eagle’ Maurer, king of the mountains

    No one has defeated the Swiss paraglider over the gruelling Red Bull X-Alps course in 16 years. As the 2025 race begins, he shares what it takes

    Chrigel Maurer flying at Langkofel in Italy during the 2023 Red Bull X-Alps race
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Travel
    Helen Macdonald: the Sri Lankan adventure that restored my love of birding

    The ‘H Is for Hawk’ author relishes the island’s temples, tea estates and curries — but most of all its breathtaking wildlife

    A bird with a white chest, brownish-red plumage and wings, dark blue-coloured head and a silvery blue beak sits on the branch of a tree
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    Travel
    At the helm for a tall ship adventure in the Mediterranean

    Aboard the three-masted schooner Blue Clipper for a 10-day hands-on voyage from Portugal to Monaco

    The view from the deck of a sailing ship at dusk, with a few thin clouds against a reddening sky
  • Saturday, 19 April, 2025
    Travel
    Deep into the Sahara, on a Mauritanian adventure

    As travel warnings ease and flights increase, David Pilling joins a tour operator’s ‘recce’, travelling from the coast into the desert to find dune seas, ancient villages and remote oases

    Six people on a ridge looking out across a vast sandy expanse with mountain ranges on either side
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Travel
    The Haute Route by e-bike

    A young Swiss company is offering the chance to tackle the Alps’ most famous ski touring route — the high traverse from Chamonix to Zermatt — on electrically assisted mountain bikes

    Four cyclists ride on a mountain pass, with snow-covered peaks behind them
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Travel
    Yachting the easy way: a flotilla tour of the Ionian Islands

    Even those with little experience — and a modest budget — can enjoy a taste of the yachting lifestyle

    A group of medium sized-yachts with their sails out in a wide bay with islands and mountains in the distance
  • Sunday, 2 March, 2025
    Travelista
    Four great African adventures

    Dream expeditions from Uganda to Madagascar

    The sala at Singita Kilima, Tanzania
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    HTSI
    On the slopes with the ski patrol – Chamonix’s first responders

    From rescuing errant skiers to monitoring avalanches, the unsung heroes of the mountains put one writer through his paces

    Professional freeskier Yan Viallet out with ski patrol in Chamonix
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    How To Spend It In...
    Annoushka Ducas’s ski guide to Saint-Martin-de-Belleville

    The jewellery designer loves its peaks, powder and pudding

    Annoushka Ducas in Saint-Martin-de-Belleville
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    HTSI
    Dinner is served, at -25°C

    Meet the fine-dining outfit trying to make the ultimate frozen meal

    Seared tuna with pickled ginger kewpie mayo and caviar served by White Desert in the Antarctic
  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    Travel
    50 holidays to take in 2025

    From Arkansas to Zambia — and art to adventure — FT travel writers offer 12 months of holiday inspiration

    A woman stands on a ledge overlooking a town on the coast that is covered in snow
  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    Travel
    How to climb Everest in a week

    An Austrian guide will soon lead trips up the world’s highest peak in less time than an average beach holiday. Is adventure travel going too high, too fast?

    A hand pulls back the flap of a yellow tent to give a view over a snow-topped mountain in bright sunshine
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    HTSIYour ultimate guide to all-weather gear
    Top skiwear for kids

    Cool kit for the winter slopes

    Boden all-weather waterproof coat, £75
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    FT Series
    Your ultimate guide to all-weather gear

    There’s no such thing as bad conditions - only the wrong kit

    Endura MT500 waterproof bib trousers, £199.99
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    HTSISeven wellness journeys to help you find your feelgood
    10 adventures to tackle at 50

    An impending midlife milestone prompts one writer to update his bucket list 

    The Peking To Paris Motor Challenge
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    HTSI
    Six all-action adventure holidays for 2025

    Kitesurfing in Madagascar, fish spotting in Australia or driving through the Scottish wilds. Why not take your next trip to a new dimension?

    Rebecca Newman kitesurfing off the coast of Nosy Ankao island, Madagascar
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