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13-Year-Old Completes Climb of Mt. Everest

Photo By: Team Romero At a time when young people are setting adult-sized records, it was only a matter of time before another young kid climbed Mt. Everest. Earlier this year, 17-year-old Johnny Collinson became the youngest person to climb the seven highest peaks on the seven continents. At the time, 13-year-old Jordan Romero only [...]

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Tony Smith: Kumbh Mela

Photo © Tony Smith-All Rights ReservedTony Smith is an adventurous Welsh photographer who, at the age of 15 joined a cargo ship to South America…and this is how his world travel started. He worked on ocean liners, and subsequently on dry land in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Johannesburg in South Africa and London before settling down [...]

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#MusicMonday: Part Drummer, Part Acrobat, Part Magician (video)

After the intro and starting about 40 seconds in, the drummer for Rick K. & the Allnighters (who book themselves as ‘America’s most exciting show band’) does some of the most entertaining drumming you’re likely to see any time soon. Feature Photo from Rick K. & The Allnighters’ website. Community Connection Are you a traveling [...]

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On My Way to Work: Lahore, Pakistan

Feature Photo: Kash_if Photo: yassirhussain It’s a bit like traversing from calm to chaos and back again. It’s 3:30 pm, and I am on my way past meticulously tended lawns, villa style fortress-like houses, and shiny SUVs sparkling under the fervent Punjabi sun. Servants leisurely pedal their bicycles or laze around puffing on hooka pipes. [...]

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My Work: Orissa & Chhattisgarth

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedPhoto © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedHere are two images made while traveling in Chhattisgarh and the neighboring Orissa. There were made using my first digital camera, the Canon 10D…remember that one? The first is of an Odissi dancer in Bhubaneswar. Odissi is one of the eight classical dance forms of [...]

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