Trekking

The Northern Japan Kita Alps have been a source of inspiration for centuries, from missionaries and foreign traders looking up at...

As you drive into PICA Fujiyama, the first thing you’ll notice are a number of white domes scattered across the lawn. Each of the...

While you probably won’t encounter an elusive river sprite in the highlands of the Northern Japan Alps, you may feel a bit lightheaded from the refreshing thin air, remarkable vistas and mystical aura of the mountains and valleys in Kamikochi.

Niseko draws thousands of visitors each year to Japan’s northernmost island in search of the steep and deep. Yet when these famed...

Recent movies such as “Wild” and “A Walk in the Woods” have popularized long-distance hiking, causing many of us who enjoy backpacking to wonder what it would be like to complete one of the legendary long distance hiking trails.

An afternoon storm sends us scuttling under the eaves of a sari shop and clears the road in Besi Sahar. Only a few buses trundle over the uneven stone surface of the road in this mountain town, the starting point for many of Nepal’s most popular treks.

Mt. Fuji is silhouetted against a post-typhoon sunset, overlooking Yuno Village’s golden rice fields nearly ready for harvest. While Japan’s iconic volcano may seem cliché to some, for Masanori Shintani it is the source of inspiration for his lifework.

There’s arguably nowhere more breathtaking than Kamikochi in Japan’s Northern Alps.