ACTION CULTURE was invited to join the ATTA (Adventure Travel Trade Association), in Hokkaido, Japan for their AdventureWeek Japan. This was a perfect opportunity for us to test-run many great adventure activities that could be part of our activity holidays and to find adventure holidays to add to our growing list of the best adventure travel opportunities in Asia. Basically, we joined local adventure tour operators in Hokkaido as they…

I can listen to Alan Watts for hours. His musings on life and why it should be an adventure are truly thought-provoking and powerful. In this short film published by adventure.com, we get his insight into why we naturally value adventure. How we can comprehend living life differently or even living an entire life every day. What would you do? What would your fears and desires be? If you could…

Cruel, heartbreaking, exhausting and so rewarding it's addictive...Bikepacking. This is a great self-filmed video from Montanus of their Iceland traverse. Be careful, it might just inspire you to get out and punish yourself with an epic bikepacking trip. I know it's got me planning one for as soon as possible. Iceland Divide is a short film that chronicles a self-supported bikepacking expedition from north to south of Iceland, through one…

ACTION CULTURE founder Glenn talks to COOP Magazine Switzerland about Bungy Jumping and Fear. COOP Magazine recently caught up with Glenn in the mountains of Engelberg, Switzerland to film first-time bungy jumpers as they prepared to bungy jump from a gondola 140M above the ground below. The article examines fear; it's effects and rewards. After more than a decade of experience on the jump-deck helping nervous first-time bungy jumpers break…

Skiing & Snowboarding A Love Letter to Winter, North Face's 2018 Snow Team Edit, is stunning. It's really refreshing to see people doing amazing things, absolutely extreme and pushing the boundaries of what is extreme even further, but set to mellow music. This helps you appreciate the beauty of the lines taken, the natural flow of the movement from somebody doing what they love, and what they spend all their…

The Frozen Road; Self-shot and edited whilst cycling around the world, this short biking film charts my winter journey into the Arctic as I completed my bike ride up the American continent. Compelled by Jack London’s assertion, that ‘any man who is a man can travel alone’, I sought an adventure of perfect solitude. Yet, as I came to realize, the harsh truths of traveling in such a formidable environment…

Snowflake; Back in 2015 DPS Skis Cinematic, in association with Gore-Tex and Outdoor Research released The Shadow Campaign: Volume II That's when I first saw this interview with Snowflake. And it still brings a smile to my face every time I watch it. Listening to Snowflake trying to describe just what the mountains and skiing mean to him is so much fun. This is a person that fell in love with…

Travel Inspiration Travel Inspiration is our effort at explaining what I once realized; I simply forget the forgettable moments in my life. Things that I have done hundreds or thousands of times, should occupy a large part of my memory. For example, from all of the many days that I went to work in a particular job, I only remember some representative moments, most of those individual days are gone…

Feeling Insignificant - Travel Inspiration from ACTION CULTURE Just a very short film (30 seconds short) to try and express the joy you can get from feeling insignificant. That sounds strange, I know. But, we're often so busy and so important to each other, our family and friends that even though we understand that we are in the very center of our universe, we can forget just how big and…

TED Talks - Chris Burkard TED Talks - Chris Burkard; Even if you haven't heard of him, you've probably seen some of his great photos. Often focused on cold climate destinations above the Arctic Circle and believe it or not, surfing in ice-cold water at these amazing places. "Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit," says surf photographer Chris Burkard, as…