The magazine covered
adventure travel,
environmental issues,
natural science, and other topics related to the outdoors. It focused on adventure travel and included: ;Regular features • "First In", that featured recent adventure travel news • "Gear", that featured experts' recommendations of good gear that would improve ones' vacation experience • "Living It" that featured
Adventure tips, ways to avoid danger, ways to help, etc. • "Next Weekend", that featured good weekend trips from all across the U.S. • "Where Next", that featured vacation destinations across the world ;Adventurer of the Year Annually, a slate of adventurers were named
National Geographic Adventure Adventurer of the Year", in a variety of categories. For example, the December 2008/January 2009 issue named "Fourteen people who dreamed big, pushed their limits, and made our year". One, Pemba Gyalje Sherpa, was named for "extreme heroism under trying extreme circumstances" for repeatedly risking his life to successfully rescue several mountaineers stranded on the mountain, during the
2008 K2 disaster. ==Masthead==