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    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
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      Why designer cabins are springing up in a wood near you

      A new breed of hip, off-grid hideaways offers stressed city-dwellers the chance to unplug — and a new income stream for landowners

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
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      Inside Club Med’s vast new ‘ski factory’

      It started out as a tented camp in Mallorca with utopian ideals and no running water. But 73 years on, and now with Chinese owners, the French brand is moving upmarket and embarking on an Alpine building spree

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
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      A new frontier for adventure-seeking skiers

      In the medieval mountain town of Mestia, a team of local and Canadian guides is opening up a new frontier for adventure-seeking skiers

    • Saturday, 7 January, 2023
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      The smartest way to the slopes: skiing by Venice Simplon-Orient- Express

      A sumptuous (if very slow) new route to the French Alps is launching — amid growing rivalry around the most famous brand on rails

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
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      Battersea Power Station gets its first hotel

      Launched earlier this week, the art’otel gives guests sweeping views over London’s newly redeveloped cathedral of industry

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
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      Has Verbier’s après-ski scene finally grown up?

      First it was flagons of plonk, then flashy cocktails and champagne spraying, but a new club signals a more sophisticated evolution

    • Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
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      Kenton Cool: the risks and rewards of a career in the ‘death zone’

      His 16th ascent of Everest has confirmed the British climber as one of the world’s most successful high-altitude guides — so why does he feel increasingly conflicted?

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
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      Galápagos now: when a superyacht meets world heritage site

      An exclusive first voyage on the Aqua Mare

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
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      Why cyclists are flocking to a volcano in the Atlantic

      Once a training ground only for professionals, Tenerife’s volcano is attracting growing numbers of amateur enthusiasts

    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
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      A new bikepacking adventure — on London’s doorstep

      The Cantii Way takes riders on a four-day loop through the byways of rural Kent

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
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      ‘World first’ airport for flying taxis opens . . . in a Coventry car park

      Backed by the UK government, Air-One launched this week — though actual flights might be a long way off

    • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
      Travel
      The mouse they couldn’t kill

      Conservationists thought their airborne assault had eradicated the mice threatening one of the world’s greatest seabird colonies. Then a survivor showed up

    • Monday, 15 November, 2021
      Travel
      Beaverbrook Town House and the story of Sloane Street

      A glamorous new hotel is part of a bid to reanimate one of London’s best-known thoroughfares

    • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
      FT SeriesWellbeing and fitness: the cool guide to winter cycling
      Legends of the road — Champagne cycling with Eddy Merckx

      With rides led by the sport’s biggest stars — and food from celebrated chefs — cycling weekends don’t get more indulgent

    • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
      FT SeriesPink Snow 2021: winter sports special
      Could Uzbekistan be skiing’s next big thing?

      The opening of a brand new resort is drawing attention to what could be a new frontier for the sport

    • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
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      Five ski adventures for 2021-22

      From first descents on Baffin Island to an alternative Alpine ‘haute route’

    • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
      Travel
      Can the Costa del Sol package go posh?

      The Ikos group is betting its new €180m resort will redefine the reputations of both a much-maligned coastline and the ‘all-inclusive’ package

    • Tuesday, 7 September, 2021
      Travel
      The Londoner: can a dazzling £500m hotel save Leicester Square?

      The once-grand piazza has a reputation as a tacky tourist magnet but an ambitious new hotel hopes to bring a more refined air

    • Saturday, 31 July, 2021
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      Postcard from the Isle of Wight — our ‘overseas’ staycation

      With beautiful beaches and verdant hills, the English island is being discovered by a new generation of visitors

    • Monday, 12 July, 2021
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      #Boatlife — the families seeking new lives at sea

      The pandemic and the rise of remote working have prompted growing numbers to weigh anchor

    • Wednesday, 26 May, 2021
      Travel
      An unlikely reprieve: the notorious jail reborn as a luxury hotel

      Cornwall’s new Bodmin Jail Hotel is a £60m gamble on the appeal of ‘dark tourism’. Simon Usborne was its first guest

    • Monday, 3 May, 2021
      FT SeriesWellbeing and fitness: the world’s most brutally beautiful sporting adventures
      From gangland London to the wilds of Antarctica

      Dwayne Fields’ life changed when he discovered expeditions and adventure; now he wants to bring more diversity to the great outdoors

    • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
      Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
      Triumph and tragedy on K2

      As the climbing world celebrated a historic first winter ascent, the ‘Savage Mountain’ began to live up to its name

    • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
      Travel
      My father died in an avalanche, but skiing still holds the family together

      As the pandemic puts a 90-year family tradition on hold, Simon Usborne reflects on the sport that has given — and taken — so much

    • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
      Travel
      K2 in winter — climbers reach for mountaineering’s last great prize

      Record numbers have converged on the ‘Savage Mountain’, competing for the first winter ascent

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