Guided ski adventures involving a week of off-piste skiing in France, Italy or Switzerland. Take the gamble out of resort skiing. Travel to the best snow.

Jul 14, 2009 - Lisa Auer

The long summer days provide the perfect opportunity for nature lovers to appreciate the many natural wonders found amongst the fjords, mountains and valleys near Tromso.

Jun 20, 2009 - Marc Latham

Bordered by a crystal clear lake and crisscrossed by canals, Annecy is one of the most popular resorts in the French Alps.

Nov 6, 2009 - Solange Hando

There's nothing cookie-cutter about the scenery, or about Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Tromso and the other towns along the Norwegian Coastal Voyage route.

Aug 12, 2007 - Connie Emerson

Enjoy an Arctic ski holiday in Swedish Lapland. Skiing, dog sled tours and snow mobile safaris are snow activities on offer in the land of the midnight sun.

Apr 15, 2010 - Lisa Auer

Older skiers enjoy camps and classes at two Lake Tahoe resorts or join the Over the Hill Gang International for package trips to the Rockies or the Alps.

Oct 26, 2010 - Grace Lichtenstein

As new records are broken at the 2010 Winter Olympics, take time to check out some of the past Winter Games record breakers and other Olympic sports trivia.

Feb 19, 2010 - Trilby Henderson

This article looks at the spectacular expeditions of two Scandinavian explorers, Nansen and Nordenskiöld - Explorers of Antarctica and the Arctic.

Feb 16, 2011 - Linda Smallwood

Pleasure boat cruises on Lake Geneva in Switzerland for lunch, dinner, fondue, and sightseeing during winter are limited while ferry services go to France on Lac Léman.

Jan 5, 2010 - Henk Bekker

Fridtjof Nansen was born on 10 October 1861 just outside the Norwegian capital of Oslo then known as Christiania.

May 24, 2009 - Barry Vale

The water has an interesting history but nowadays there is much more to Evian, including golf.

Nov 29, 2010 - Alex Ninian

Lake Lugano and Lake Maggiore are sandwiched between mountains in this part of Italian Switzerland.

Jan 13, 2011 - Alex Ninian

The American Museum of Natural History's Exhibition for the Centenary of Amundsen and Scott's Race to the South Pole shows in Genoa until 18 March 2012

Nov 26, 2011 - Valerie Wilson

The South Island of New Zealand is a unique landscape of mountains, valleys, forests and fiordlands. Find the best places to vacation in the stunning South Island.

May 21, 2008 - Rebecca Turner

Snow and ice golf is an old European sport played today with fluorescent, coloured, or decomposing golf balls

Jul 26, 2011 - Marie-Claude Arnott

Roald Amundsen's better equipped Norwegian team outdid the British expedition led by Robert Scott, and so were first to the southernmost point on Earth.

Dec 26, 2011 - Brian Cross

Geography can define music style. Folk music, whether sea shanties, irish folk, polka or Swiss mountain music, is similar if compared by geographic region.

Jun 30, 2010 - Donna Pravel

The one thing that Interlaken offers travellers above all else, is choice. No other resort town in the world has as much abundance in so small an area.

Apr 7, 2010 - Sanjay Mallah

Yvoire, a romantic medieval town in Haute Savoie on the French side of Lake Geneva, is a popular day-trip destination from Genève, Nyon, Evian, and local Alpine resorts.

Jun 2, 2009 - Henk Bekker