Travel pushes people to their limits, and that's why it makes for the best compatibility test. Here's some who did it.

Ecuador has several dormant volcanoes not only challenging in themselves, but great practice for bigger peaks. Here is a ...

Louise Tandy – heir to Australia’s most successful travel family – returns to Patagonia to test the trek she believes defines ...

Volcanoes are active globally, offering exciting hiking opportunities. Travellers can safely climb Mount Etna in Italy, ...

If successful, Sunday's referendum will change Ecuador's constitution, enabling the return of US forces in a move intended to bolster ties between President Daniel ...

At least 27 inmates were found dead from asphyxiation Sunday at a prison in Ecuador where a riot broke out that left four others dead and dozens injured earlier in the day, officials said. The inmates ...

A riot in a prison in southern Ecuador has killed at least 31 inmates, according to prison authorities. In a statement released on Sunday, Ecuador’s SNAI prison authority said 27 of those found dead ...

Bethany Clarke and her best friend Simone White were backpacking together around Southeast Asia when they drank bootleg shots laced with methanol - and it proved tragically fatal for Simone ...

The bridge explosions occur just hours after a car bomb went off outside a shopping mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city. Police, firefighters and security officials inspect the damage at the ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Crowds protesting a spike in fuel prices spilled into the streets of Ecuador’s capital of Quito Sunday, burning tires, blocking roads and facing off against police officers who ...

I first encountered the ideas of ultralight backpacking in 1994, in an article in now-defunct (and much-missed) Backpacker magazine. It was titled “Less is More,” by Mark Jenkins. (I still have a PDF ...