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We’ve all heard about women who have gone missing or have been found dead while traveling alone. While these stories are unsettling and often tragic, I refuse to let them stop me from doing what I love.

Calling all high school students (and anyone who knows one)! National Geographic Student Expeditions is launching a photo contest, and we hope you’ll enter — or at least help spread the word by sharing this with your friends on Facebook, Twitter or Google +1. The grand prize winner will snag a spot at a one-of-a-kind, 12-day,…

Justine Seligson, a teen travel columnist, shares some photography tips she picked up while participating in the National Geographic Student Expedition trip in Bar Harbor, Maine earlier this summer.

Send Your Teen to Peru

Or New Zealand, China, Greece, the Galápagos, India, Iceland, Costa Rica, or Tanzania, among other destinations. Not on their own, of course, but with National Geographic Student Expeditions. Each participant picks an assignment: (photography, marine biology, filmmaking, community service, creative writing, wildlife conservation are some of the choices), and are guided over the 10-day to…

Teen Trips that Make Us Long for High School

There’s not very much that can make us want to go back in time and re-do high school. But when we heard about a set of trips being offered by National Geographic Expeditions, we seriously considered retaking calculus for a chance to come along. Expeditions has partnered with Putney Student Travel to create a new…