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Felix Baumgartner: Blurring the lines between skydiver and astronaut
Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper, Felix Baumgartner, has become the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound without a vehicle. During his freefall, Baumgartner reached speeds of...
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Are You Being Fooled by the Greenwash?
Even before ‘greenwashing’ had made its way into the Oxford English Dictionary in 1999, it had been sneakily adopted by the cynical and irresponsible in every industry, not least tourism. Many tour...
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Frankenstorm – Is this a sign of what’s to come?
The elongation of the hurricane season saw a tropical storm from the south meet with a regular winter low-pressure system from the north to create ‘Frankenstorm’ – a hybrid monster. These storms are...
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Are we on track for 2015?
How are we doing in the run up to the post 2015 world? On Tuesday I attended an event to discuss what will happen when the date for completion of the Millennium Development Goals expires. This week the...
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Excursions Without Excuses at the World Travel Market
The World Travel Market 2012 kicked off on Monday. It’s a leading global event in the tourist sector and a place for folk in the travel sector to meet, network, negotiate and conduct business. Tomorrow...
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First Ever Photo of a Wild Singing Dog?
Is this the first ever photograph of a New Guinea Singing Dog in the wild? Photo from the trail, cropped to show dog We had word of some very exciting wildlife news at Adventure Alternative HQ...
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The Ethics of the International Development Trip: Medical Electives
Often enough, the West imposes its view of development on to the developing world. This issue extends to the ‘gap year’ and volunteering industries, when the tourist’s needs are places ahead of the...
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Supporting the Indiginous Penan people of Malaysian Borneo
Adventure Alternative has spent recent years working to support the indigenous Penan people who live in the rainforests of the Sarawak region of Malaysian Borneo. A number of villages are represented...
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Out of Africa : Gilbert’s account of a week with Adventure Alternative in the UK
Last week a handful of Adventure Alternative/Moving Mountains staff touched down on UK soil. Friends and colleagues flew over from Kenya, Nepal and Russia to celebrate AA/MM founder Gavin’s wedding and...
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Slum Tours : The Human Zoo?
Over the past decade ‘slum tourism’ has sky-rocketed to popularity, seen as a new way to branch outside the more conventional tourist activities. This form of tourism can actually be dated back to...
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Chasing Ice
Chasing Ice is a recently released and award-winning feature film which follows photographer James Balog in his quest to photograph and document the recession of glaciers around the world. It seems...
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Outside the comfort zone: Hobbits and the concept of Home
A Psychologist’s review of the new movie- The Hobbit: An unexpected journey. Peter Jackson (Director) Much of the early discussion of Peter Jackson’s new film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, has...
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Climbing and Craic in the Atlas Mountains
A very Personal Account of Adventure in the Moroccan High Atlas By P. Jack PART 1 : SOMEWHERE IN NORTH WEST AFRICA…. I was at 4,100 metres above sea level in the Atlas mountains of Morocco. There were...
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What Responsible Tourism is Not
The word Sustainable is now everywhere, it has grown beyond its literal, grammatical meaning and is tagged onto a huge number of entities, some deserving, some not. In the world of travel and tourism...
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An Unseasonably Cold Spring
As you may have heard, Adventure Alternative founder and Director, Gavin Bate, is currently ski-ing 550km to the magnetic North Pole to raise money for Moving Mountains Trust (@MMTrust). Thanks to...
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Race me to the Pole – the last push
Ahead of relaying the final instalment on Gavin’s trip, we want to thank all supporters of Gavin and Moving Mountains Trust throughout this expedition on behalf of Gavin himself and all of the Moving...
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Trekking and Big Society in Morocco
The following is re-produced from an article in the Peterlee Star on September 25th 2013. The author, David Taylor-Gooby, and his brother Peter, joined Adventure Alternative for a summer trek in the...
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School Expedition now run in Tanzania as well as Kenya
Adventure Alternative have extended their popular ‘Africamp’ School Expedition to Kenya into Tanzania after a very successful trip in the summer of 2014, which saw a team of 22 students and 3 teachers...
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How fit do I need to be to climb Kilimanjaro?
This is the most commonly asked question I’ve received in the last fourteen years of organising Adventure Alternative climbs of Kilimanjaro. And the answer – well it depends more on your approach to...
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Can there be gender equality in the Kenya tourism industry? Eva from AA Kenya...
My names are Evelyn Muronji Walluckano and I’ve worked in the Kenya tourism industry for nine years after I pursued a diploma in food production and a second in tour guiding and administration. When I...
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