Kate Whitehead

Nine months in Antarctica braving minus 80 C temperatures is one thing. It’s the three months of darkness that really do you in

With almost 30 years’ experience in the field, Matthew Friedman could easily have written just a catalogue of horror – but he presents practical advice on what we can do to end this scourge

Their simple life in harmony with nature is vanishing, but a social enterprise using nomads as guides helps preserve it by taking visitors to camp with herders If you want an experience that gets you out of your comfort zone and into the wilderness, consider spending some time with nomadic herders on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in…

Being mixed up with China sceptic is ‘the bane of my life’, says Gordon H. Chang, recently in Hong Kong, who sees America as both fearful of and attracted to China but unlikely to be eclipsed by the rising power any time soon

Young people in Tin Shui Wai say they have been offered cash to stir up trouble at the Mong Kok protest site

You have to be “a bit crazy” to want to go to the weird and wonderful places that excite the Lonely Planet founder