Go somewhere for a reason.

A week aboard a yacht in Arctic Norway, skinning up from the shoreline each morning and skiing back down to it.

The Highland Trail 550: self-supported bikepacking on bothies, singletrack and hike-a-bike.

28 km round trip to the rock tongue jutting over Ringedalsvatnet — some 90,000 hikers a year.

Sixteen days around Manaslu in a restricted zone — the Annapurna Circuit as it was thirty years ago.

The Silvretta Runde — a week hut to hut over glaciated 3,000-metre summits on the border.

The most ridden long-distance cycle route in Europe and the template every other one copies.

The Zenobia — a 172-metre ferry that sank in 1980, regularly rated a top-five wreck dive.

Chasing clear sky by minibus above the Arctic Circle — the northern lights from September to March.

A week under the meltemi — island-hopping Paros, Naxos, Ios and Santorini across the Aegean.

Eight days in Europe's last true wilderness, reached along the Kungsleden — no trails, no huts and no bridges once you are inside.

Drysuit dives in 2°C glacial water, in the flooded rift between two continental plates.

The 21 numbered hairpins — the Tour de France's most famous climb, ridden daily all summer.

Six days of expedition kayaking beneath thousand-metre granite faces rising straight from the Arctic sea.

The Soča's colour is genuinely unlike any other river in Europe — it's the reason people come.

The Lofotodden traverse to Kvalvika and Horseid — white-sand beaches with no road behind them.

Porto to Santiago on the coastal way — around 280 km walked by some 100,000 pilgrims a year.

96 miles from Milngavie to Fort William — Scotland's classic long walk, some 120,000 walkers a year.

The high route in summer — Orla Perć's chains and ladders, then Rysy and the top of Poland at 2,499 m.

Croatia's oldest and most photographed national park, UNESCO-listed since 1979.

Sunrise over the fairy chimneys — the most-flown hot-air balloon site on the planet.

The cross-continental swim — 6.5 km from Asia to Europe, with a place decided by lottery.

The single most photographed viewpoint in Norway.

The birthplace of alpinism, and the greatest vertical ascent of any cable car in the world.

Multi-day hut-to-hut traverses across the Dolomites, sleeping in rifugi with a view most hotels cannot buy.