Standing on the Roof of Africa is both an exercise in persistence and a memory you’ll recount for decades. The highest peak on the continent and one of the Seven Summits, Kilimanjaro doesn’t require technical climbing experience to reach the top. What it does require is time, patience, and a willingness to chill out and…

Africa’s Sahara is the largest hot desert on earth, and crossing it overland is one of those experiences that entirely recalibrates your sense of scale entirely. Time and space in the desert are on their own agenda. You adapt to it. Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia each offer their own distinct entry point into a desert…

Trekking through the dense jungles of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in hopes of spotting a mountain gorilla family is one of the few travel experiences that genuinely has the power to reframe your place in the world. Little comes close to the moment when you’re sitting six feet from a silverback snacking on leaves, unhurried…