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Extreme Adventure Travel with Abercrombie & Kent

September 2, 2010 | Posted by bLavish as Luxury Travel at 2:35 pm | Comments off

Have you ever wanted to trek across the Egyptian desert by Jeep or go dog sledding in the Arctic? Maybe you prefer to walk across Tanzania or climb to the top of Mt. Everest? What ever your extreme adventure vacation dream is, Abercrombie & Kent can make it happen for you.

A luxury travel provider, Abercrombie & Kent offers dreamlike itineraries for the wealthy adventurer. A&K goes places that usually only scientists and anthropologists go and takes you with them. For a pretty price, of course, this level of access doesn’t come cheap. A week long adventure in Antarctica, for example, starts at around $52,000.

What do you get for that kind of money? The experience of a lifetime with few frills. While most of Abercrombie & Kent’s tours take you from one five-star hotel to the next, their extreme adventure tours take you from basecamp to basecamp, where you will eat open-fire cooked food in common areas and sleep in tents.

Adventures are ranked by difficulty on a scale of 1-4. 1 being for the average healthy Joe or Jane and 4 being for only the heartiest millionaires. The tours are led by prominent expeditionists with years of experience. If you dreamed of being Indiana Jones but somehow ended up a little more like Bill Gates, this is your chance to see what life is like in the extreme.