Perched on the abyss, I was about to drop into a black hole ringed by surging white water. There was no turning back now. Paddle hard. Be aggressive. Follow my guide's line. As an avid sea kayaker I was eager to try...

El Chalten is hailed as the trekking capital of Argentina, and it did not disappoint. The town was created in the mid 1980s by the Argentinian government to stake its border claim with Chile. But its location at the base of the...

With each step my crampons dug into the surface of the glacier with a satisfying crunch. The cold wind off the ice made this Argentinian summer feel like a winter's day in Newfoundland. The ice field stretched ahead of me for over 30 kilometres, reaching to the snow capped Andes...

I exited the subway system back onto the sunny streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina. I had just travelled from the quiet neighbourhood of San Telmo to bustling Retiro where I was catching a bus out of the city. With temperatures in the thirties, I couldn't wait to escape the heat...

I never thought I'd see penguins in the wild, and I'd certainly never thought I'd see them while wearing shorts and a t-shirt. But, as was explained to me later, there's such a thing as warm weather penguins. This particular species is the Magellanic...

Photo credit: Carolina Bonfanti Mele

Argentinian's often speak of the "other Argentina." Depending on where they're from this either means rural Argentina or Buenos Aires, populated by the porteños of European descent. But there is a third Argentina. Villa...

Still from Ryan Lewis' stop motion short Fake Empire which depicts the effects of technology on our daily lives.

Colin Drummond's post 'The Gift of Attention' speaks to how the devices that connect us are actually creating distance...

I emerged from the desert, lips chapped, hair like straw and reeking of wood smoke. As we rode along on camelback, I was relieved to see the village of Wadi Rum appear across the valley. Only a few days ago the tiny village seemed to be the end of the...