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These are the worst trips in the world Here are 13 thrilling real-life stories of journeys gone wrong. ByNational Geographic Staff Email Seeking adventure or escape wasn’t without peril even before the coronavirus pandemic stilled travel. Some trips don’t go as planned in dramatic ways. Food poisoning pauses your sushi-tasting tour of Tokyo. A trip on the trail in Yellowstone results in a broken arm. A pickpocket complicates your museum visits in Paris. But other times real disaster strikes—especially for adventure travelers and expeditioners. From the summit of Everest to the jungles o...

Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! It’s April 1968, and an insurance salesman from Minnesota named Ralph Plaisted is looking down at his feet. He’s standing on an ice floe in the Arctic, with 10,000 feet of frigid water below. And the ice is getting softer. Plaisted looks around. Miles of ice-covered ocean surround him in all directions. He’s only days into his attempt to reach the North Pole—and things look as grim as they’ve ever been. Plaisted and his team of amateur explorers have endured fuel shortages, howling storms, and forgotten supplies. But now, just a few in...

As long as humans have realized that there are worlds out there beyond the confines of what we know, there have been those willing to go out and explore them. Our never-ending push past the boundaries of our own reality have brought back stories from intrepid adventurers of elusive unknown places beyond our wildest imaginings. History is populated by tales of mysterious lost lands and hidden places removed from civilization, with some of the greatest travelers tales revolving around enigmatic realms that have managed to evade understanding to lie out on the periphery of the known universe. On...

NewsBlaze News Nepal Government Responds to Indian Climbers Accused of Faking Their Mount Everest Climb Sun February 28, 2021 The Nepal government continues to take drastic measures against individuals who fake their climb to the peak of Mount Everest. This decision comes in light of accusations that 26-year-old Narender Singh Yadav, who was proposed to be awarded the Tenzing Norgay national adventure award, faked the proof of his climb. While Mount Everest is constantly a focus of controversy among amateur and professional climbers alike, the situation of Narender Sing Yadav has escalated qu...

Ted Buss Although countless frauds, con artists, cheaters, swindlers, however you refer to them, have been exposed through the years, there are still a few suspects many wonder about. The king of financial fraud was Charles Ponzi, who was cunning with other folk’s money in the 1920s. His name lives on today as the Ponzi scheme. It existed through Bernie Madoff and other noted swindlers, plus large and small businesses and even churches. In the film “Hearts of the West” starring Jeff Bridges, the plot was real by con standards. In the movie Bridges, a 1930s wannabe western writer, boards...