Heli-skiing company Canadian Mountain Holidays is taking hikers to new heights this summer with its "High-Flying Heli Adventure" in British Columbia.

  A canyon wren greets the dawn, its call a descending scale of flute-like notes. Eyes open to the sight of distant palisades blushing in the morning sun. Here at the canyon bottom, a kilometre below the rim, shadows linger well into the morning.

  In the spring of 1916, when Ernest Shackleton's ship the Endurance was crushed by Antarctic pack ice, he made a famous open-boat voyage to safety.

  Remember Euro 2004 when the Greek soccer team pulled a huge upset win and the Danforth was transformed into a sea of cheering, flag-waving fans?

  Drive through rural countryside opens eyes and gets heart pounding.

  The guided tour service operated by David Kellie may well be the best bargain in Scotland.

  In the dark, foggy shroud of an early morning, headlamps cast eerie lights on the faces of a dozen or so hikers lingering at a trailhead that leads to the summit of the most active volcano in the continental U.S.

  We drive the Karakoram Highway linking China and Pakistan in a rickety Volkswagen Santana; our driver and guide is a bespectacled man named Xiao Xu.

  Even the most landlubberly soul can feel the exhilaration of racing across the waves in 12-metre yacht challenge.

  In the hit film The Bucket List , Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman meet in hospital in California after they've been diagnosed with cancer. Between them they cook up a "bucket list" – a to-do list of all they want to do before they kick the bucket.