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A Look Back at 2014
As you ring in the New Year and put your 2015 calendar up, it’s time to recap some of the wonderful and memorable moments of 2014. This year three Nepalese climbers made history as the first all-female team to summit K2 on the 60th anniversary of the first successful summit bid. American snowboarder Jamie Anderson […]
3 Super Hacks to Transform Your Life in 2015
These are not just your everyday life hacks—how to open a bottle of wine without an opener, how to start a campfire with Doritos, how to make your kids’ lunches look like a Disney character. These, my friends, are Super Hacks. These three Super Hacks are guaranteed to transform your life in a meaningful way. […]
Reviewed: National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States
471 pages of full-color, glossy photographs, maps, and information about 58 of the National Parks in the United States
Is Skateboarding the Biggest Girls Sport in Afghanistan?
You would probably be surprised to hear that nearly half of all the skateboarders in a country are female. But you would be shocked to learn that the country is Afghanistan, where Skateistan founders say that skateboarding has become the biggest sport for girls. In a country where the gender gap is extreme, these skateboarding […]
Review: Women’s Adventure Founder Michelle Theall’s Memoir
Teaching The Cat To Sit is, ultimately, a story about mothers and daughters.
Women in Adventure Film and Photography Needed
The organizers of the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival in the U.K. noted that last year just one-fifth of the submissions were films made by or featuring women. So this year, they are making a concerted effort to change that demographic, by featuring special contests and categories for women. The deadlines to submit are right away, […]
John Muir Trail Hike For Depression And Suicide Awareness
When tragedy strikes, Jeff Alt leads his wife Beth into the wilderness of the John Muir Trail for 16 days.
2014 Holiday Gift Guide
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These Are The Best Kind of Holiday Lights
This is the season where everybody plugs in holiday lights to dress up their homes, shops, and streets. But the best kind of holiday lights are au naturel, the real magic that lights up the world. Take a look at the aurora borealis and the illuminated volcanic flow in Iceland, and see if it doesn’t […]
You Are What’s Underneath
The fashion industry and the media seem to have a unified theory about the concept of beauty. The only problem is that beauty isn’t that simple—it’s not a single ideal that you can slap on the cover of every magazine and shove down the throats of every human being. We are not Barbie dolls. For […]
Why We Need More Heroines Like Nellie Bly
It was 125 years ago that the original woman adventurer Nellie Bly made her epic journey around the world in 72 days. The spirited 25-year-old was trying to break Phileas Fogg’s record of circumnavigating the globe (in Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days) but in doing so she also broke with every convention […]
Two Apps You Need To Get Before Ski Season
Here at Women’s Adventure, we love apps. And not just the crackers, cheese, and crudité kind that come around the holidays. (We love those, too.) But the apps you can download for your smartphone or tablet that give you some handy new tool. Here are two new apps we’ve discovered just in time for the […]
