by Marybeth Bond | Apr 29, 2011 | Colorado
Check out this week’s featured travel photos! Blaine Harrington is a travel/location photographer, based in Metro Denver (Colorado, USA). He is the 2005 and 2006 SATW Travel Photographer of the Year. He has worked on assignment for most major news, business and...
by Marybeth Bond | Apr 25, 2011 | Adventure, AFRICA
Our friends at Thomson Safaris interview Marcus Shapiro, the founder and CEO of Fit For Trips Q: What are some of the concerns your clients have before climbing Kilimanjaro? A: I commonly get asked about altitude. Although altitude issues can affect anyone, being...
by Marybeth Bond | Apr 25, 2011 | Adventure, AFRICA
From our friend Ali Riley at Thomson Safaris With its sturdy build, menacing horn and impenetrable hide, it is hard to imagine that the fate of the rhinoceros – one of the iconic Big Five – hangs in such a delicate balance. Over the past several decades, the rhino...
by Marybeth Bond | Apr 25, 2011 | Adventure, AFRICA
From our friends at Thomson Safaris Guest blogger Helga Ausman on climbing one of the world’s great peaks–at 78. Five years ago when I was climbing Mt.Shasta (14,162 ft) I found myself surrounded by experienced mountaineers who had climbed just about...
by Marybeth Bond | Apr 25, 2011 | Adventure, Tanzania, AFRICA
From our friends at Thomson Safaris: Professional photographer Andy Biggs just returned from leading two back-to-back Africa Through the Lens trips in Tanzania. He searched out the large herds of the Great Migration in the southern plains of the Serengeti and was...
