Anyone looking for the soul of Corsica should be heading straight to the GR20 trail, far from the coast swarming with tourists. Walking the GR20 trek remains the royal way to discover real ...

The Isle of Yeu stands as the most remote island off the Atlantic coast. Come summer, it swells to 35,000 inhabitants. But when winter rolls around, the 5,000 permanent residents enjoy a completely ...

Immersion in the heart of the forest, with forest engineer Ernst Zürcher, an unusual scientist giving as much credit to ancestral beliefs as to his scientific knowledge. Intermingling science and ...

Our planet is a swirl of continuously moving air, but the island of Ushant, just off the tip off rance's Finistère, is constantly buffeted by ferocious winds. How do the inhabitants of this granite ...

From the Himalayas to the Andes, from the Rocky Mountains to the Alps, plants from the Thomasia botanical garden offer a miniature tour of the world of alpine plants. From May to October, gardener ...

How to walk in balance on a 1" wide highline stretched out between two mountains? Half-man, half-bird, sometimes even blindfolded, extreme highliners defy fear and gravity hundreds of meters above ...

Mustang is one of the most isolated valleys in the world hidden amid 8000-metre-high Himalayas. A 200km walk at an 11,000m graduated rise in altitude brings us to the mesmerizing landscapes of the ...

Let’s get into ice diving. Lake Lioson, at an altitude of 1850m, is a magnificent mountain lake in the Vaud canton, Switzerland. Frozen over in winter, it attracts from January to late March divers ...

Claude Marthaler considers biking a way of life , a means of expression, daily renewed thanks to his taste for adventure . After spending nearly 16 years on a bike, including a ...

Magical, dreamlike, enchanting: there is no shortage of words to describe the sublime ice and fire landscapes of Iceland. French photographer Olivier Joly and his friends take us on a journey to ...