An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme sports. Adventures are often undertaken to create psychological arousal or in order to achieve a greater goal, such as the pursuit of knowledge that can only be obtained by such activities.
Adventure travel is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk, and which may require special skills and physical exertion. In the United States, adventure tourism has grown in recent decades as tourists seek out-of-the-ordinary or "roads less traveled" vacations, but lack of a clear operational definition has hampered measurement of market size and growth. According to the U.S.-based Adventure Travel Trade Association, adventure travel may be any tourist activity that includes physical activity, a cultural exchange, and connection with outdoor activities and nature.
Anastasia M. Ashman is an American author, a digital strategist, and co-founder of global personal branding startup GlobalNiche.net.
The Tōkaidō road, which roughly means "eastern sea route," was the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period in Japan, connecting Kyoto to Edo. Unlike the inland and less heavily travelled Nakasendō, the Tōkaidō travelled along the sea coast of eastern Honshū, hence the route's name.
The Explorer's Grand Slam is an adventurer goal to reach the North Pole and South Pole, as well as climb the Seven Summits.
André Antoine Brugiroux is a French traveller and author who, between 1955 and 2005, visited every country and territory in the world, the last being Mustang. He was named "greatest living traveller on earth" in 2007 in Jorge Sánchez's list of Viajeros notables contemporaneous. He has made a documentary film of his first, 18-year trip and has devoted his life to spreading the message of the Baháʼí Faith worldwide.
Robin Esrock is a travel writer, bestselling author and international television personality. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Esrock has written articles for major international publications, including the Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Gulf News, South China Morning Post, Cape Town Argus, Sydney Morning Herald, Vancouver Sun, Dallas Morning News and the Toronto Star.
Rick Ridgeway is an American mountaineer and adventurer, who during his career has also been an environmentalist, writer, filmmaker and businessman. Ridgeway has climbed new routes and explored little-known regions on six continents. He was part of the 1978 team that were the first Americans to summit K2, the world's second-highest mountain. From 2005 until he retired in 2020 he oversaw environmental affairs and public engagement at the outdoor clothing company Patagonia. He has authored seven books and dozens of magazine articles, and produced or directed many documentary films.
Graham David Hughes was the first person, according to Guinness World Records, to visit all 193 United Nations member states and several other territories across the world without flying. While on his journey he presented the television programme Graham's World on the National Geographic Adventure channel.
The Travelers' Century Club, or TCC, is a club for people who have visited 100 or more of the world's countries and territories.
Sjaak Lucassen is a Dutch long-distance motorcycle rider.
The German Globetrotter Club Ltd (DZG) is the largest non-commercial community of adventure travellers with about 800 members in 23 countries in Europe. It is the oldest Globetrotters Club after the British one, called simply "The Globetrotters Club".
The Global Scavenger Hunt is an annual international travel adventure competition in which two-person teams travel around the world in competition with other teams vying to win the title of "The World’s Greatest Travelers".
Elspeth Beard is an architect and motorcyclist, noted for being one of the first English women to ride a motorcycle around the world. She later redesigned the historic Munstead Tower in Godalming, winning the 1994 Royal Institute of British Architects award for South East England. She now owns an architectural firm based in a converted stable in Godalming.
Allan Karl is an American author, adventurer and speaker. He is most known for travelling around the world on his motorcycle and subsequently writing the book, Forks: A Quest for Culture, Cuisine and Connection.
Nomad is a consumer electronics and lifestyle products company based out of Santa Barbara, California. Their products include leather phone cases, charging cables, portable battery packs, wireless chargers and travel accessories. Nomad began with its first products ChargeCard, ChargeKey and NomadPlus. Founded in 2012, they debuted on Kickstarter on July 18, 2012. In response to COVID-19, Nomad shifted their operations to produce PPE.
Lee Abbamonte is a New York City-based travel blogger, on-air travel personality and entrepreneur who has been to all 193 United Nations member states, the North Pole and the South Pole.
Johnny Ward is a Northern Irish entrepreneur, adventurer, philanthropist and travel blogger known for visiting every country in the world.
Donald Maltby Parrish Jr., better known as Don Parrish, is an American adventurer and former technical manager at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is best known for his worldwide travels. He has visited the 193 Member states of the United Nations, and has completed the Travelers' Century Club list of 327 countries, becoming the 26th member of the club to do so. He has also visited 937 of the 1013 locations on the Most Traveled People list. He has been considered the 3rd most traveled person in the Most Traveled People and 17th in Nomad Mania travel blog list. He is ranked #1 on the MTP list as of July 2022.
