If you are looking for an off the beaten path type of holiday – one that likely no one you know has ever made – look to the Telegraph’s compiled list of the “world’s most extreme places”.
This is not a Rick Steeve’s guidebook but rather a how to get to the hottest, wettest, coldest, dryest, flatest, deepest, smallest, most volcanic and highest places around the world complete with trekking and adventure guide firms.
From Peru to China the twenty stops include Canada, Norway, Ethopia, South African island and, of course, Antartica.