Walks throughout Europe that can be completed in a day. Click on the walk to read the post or use the interactive map to locate the route.
My first visit to Chamonix was in 1993 when I walked there from the shores of Lake Geneva doing a ...
The ‘Bisses’ of the Valais region of Switzerland are long irrigation channels, many of them hundreds of years old, built ...
MacGillycuddy's Reeks may sound like a character out of a Roald Dahl book but is in fact an extensive mountain ...
I am back for a second attempt at walking up Puig del Vilar. My first, halfhearted and unprepared effort was ...
The walk over the Coll de Síller begins in the attractive tourist resort of Port de Pollença with its bars, ...
The Formentor peninsula is the rocky, volcanic spit of land that sticks out into the blue Mediterranean on the north ...
Of all the walks around Pollenca, the walk up Puig de Santuiri is perhaps not the most exciting one to ...
La Mola looks down onto the pretty seaside town of Cala sant Vicenc in the far north east of the ...
If you are a walker staying in the Pollenca area of Mallorca, the pretty walk along the valley de Boquer ...
We’ve been visiting Mallorca for decades. In the early days it was Santa Ponca in the South West but over ...
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Walks in the United States including the Coastal Redwoods and the Grand Canyon. Click on the walk to read the post or use the interactive map to see the route.
Our campsite, just outside Moab, Utah is in the middle of the Colorado Plateau. The plateau varies between three to ...
The Arches National Park is like no place I have ever walked in before. Set high on the desert plateau ...
‘Don’t worry Mom, I know all about cannibalism, I saw it on TV’. Like Danny in The Shining, it’s all ...
Reading the news recently that there are now more redwoods in the U.K. than in California (read here) reminded me ...
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Our campsite, just outside Moab, Utah is in the middle of the Colorado Plateau. The plateau varies between three to twelve thousand feet above sea level and stretches over four states. Consisting of high, sparsely populated and arid desert land it’s home to no less than nine National Parks, including the Grand Canyon. Even if you’ve never visited you will have seen the plains, canyons, red rock towers and buttes of the Colorado Plateau in countless movies about the ‘Wild West’ from The Searchers to Forrest Gump. In fact, the opening scene from Mission Impossible II was filmed on the trail we will be walking today.
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My first visit to Chamonix was in 1993 when I walked there from the shores of Lake Geneva doing a section of the GR5. Thirty years later I walked there again taking the long way round from Les Houches when hiking the Tour du Mont Blanc. Last summer I actually got to drive into town when Mish and I headed off on our summer road trip to the French Alps.
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My Walks in beautiful New Zealand including two of the world’s ‘Great Walks’ The Milford Track and The Routeburn Track. Click on the walk to read the post or use the interactive map to see the route.
The Milford Track is remote, so remote in fact that you have to get a boat to the start and ...
Sometime during the night the rain had stopped and when we left the bunk room the sun was breaking through ...
As forecast we awake to a completely different scene from the Sunshine and clear blue skies of yesterday. Cloud and ...
It’s our final day on the Milford Track and there is a sense of anticipation in the air. Today, the ...
Driving to the start of the Routeburn track I was wondering if the walk we were about to do could ...
Day two on the Routeburn Track dawns bright and clear. All twenty or so bunks in our room were full ...
All was quiet and still in the valley as I paid a visit to the outside toilet during the early ...
After completing two of the ten ‘Great Walks’ in New Zealand we’re working our way slowly up through South Island, ...
It’s only sitting at home, a few weeks after my return from New Zealand that I have time to reflect ...
We are nearing the end of our month walking and travelling through the beautiful South Island of New Zealand / ...
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My hike along one of Europe’s classic long distance trails. Click on the walk to read the post or use the interactive map to see the route.
It’s been a long two days in the driving seat, it turns out the Alps are a long way from ...
The storm eventually passed over in the early hours leaving behind a dry but overcast morning. Steve slept right through ...
The Tour du Mont Blanc and the Alps in general are perfect for hut to hut walking. In France they ...
If day one of the Tour du Mont Blanc was an hors d’oeuvre and day two a starter, day three ...
The small village of Les Chapieux sits at the western most point of the Tour du Mont Blanc. Although it’s ...
Dawn brings with it another gloriously sunny day on the Tour du Mont Blanc. We are now in the Italian ...
“The beauty of adventure is to dream of it, to give air to the imagination, then you also try to ...
Today we will enter the third country on our walk around Mont Blanc. This country is a land of mountains, ...
For the last week we’ve been in the heart of the mountains. Walking along narrow rugged trails surrounded by snow ...
When we step outside to boot up for day nine of our Tour du Mont Blanc there are ominous dark ...
Today we have the third and final border crossing of our Tour du Mont Blanc when we say goodbye to ...
Stepping onto the wooden balcony that adjoins our room at 6am all is silent in the valley. The cool, still ...
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For ...
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Trekking in Nepal. From Lukla to Everest Base Camp and then a taste of ‘real’ Nepal walking out to Jiri. Click on the walk to read the post or use the interactive map to see the route.
Everest (centre) juts up from behind the Lhotse Wall with Ama Dablam on the Right I have travelled before, to ...
“Katmandu I’ll soon be seeing you And your strange bewildering time will hold me down” I am not sure if ...
We walked for twenty three days on our Nepal Trek. The Germans have a word for it, Zielwanderung or 'destination ...
Lukla 9,283ft to Phakding 8,701ft Up at 6.30am. A cup of tea was followed by finishing off packing the rucksack ...
Phakding 8,701ft to Namche Bazaar 11,306ft Up at 7.10am. A breakfast of porridge with honey, toast and jam does the ...
Namche Bazaar walking to Khunde 12,602ft and Khumjung 12,402ft Namche Bazaar is known as the 'Sherpa capital'. If you are ...
Namche 11,306ft to Tengboche 12,687ft The walk from Namche Bazaar to Tynbouche (or Tengboche) is a pure delight every step ...
Tengboche 12,687ft to Pheriche 13,911ft including rest day acclimatisation walk to Dingboche 14,272ft It was very cold in the lodge ...
Pherice 13,911ft to Lobuche 16,175ft The aim of the day is to get to Lobuche all in one piece and ...
Lobuche 16,175ft – Gorek Shep 17,008ft - Kala Patar 18,192ft – Lobuche I slept fitfully and not very well at ...
Loubuche 16,175ft to Dzongla 15,846ft Today has that feeling to it, the feeling that you have after your own wedding, ...
Dzongla 15,846ft to Dragnag 15,387ft over the Cho la pass 17,782ft We were up early, 5.30am for what will be ...
Dragnag 15,387ft back to Namche Bazaar via Phortse (12,467ft) There is no rush to get out of bed today as ...
Namche Bazaar 11,306ft to Choplung 8,727ft After the hard work of the last week we enjoyed a well earned rest ...
Jubing 5,499ft to Tragsindho 9,612ft I'm sitting in the lodge in Tragsindho watching sport on a Television, Aston Villa v ...
Junbesi 8776ft to Sete 8448ft We were up early for what is going to be a hard day compared to ...
Sete 8448ft to Bhandar 7198ft After our efforts getting over the Lamjura La Pass yesterday we are in no mad ...
Bhandar 7,198ft to Shivalaya 5,905ft It's another leisurely start to the day. Breakfast outside in the sunshine again and we ...
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Kilimanjaro is the highest free standing mountain in the world, one of the seven summits and still an active volcano. Here is my journey to ‘The Roof of Africa’. Click on the walk to read the post or use the interactive map to see the route.
Kilimanjaro - A Mountain Top Experience There is really only one reason that a Hill Walker would find himself landing at Kilimanjaro international airport and ...
Day 1 Lemosho Glades (7,838ft) to Big Tree (Mount Mkubwa) Camp (9,137ft) I’m sitting writing this at the end of day one sitting under one ...
Day 2 Big Tree (Mount Mkubwa) Camp (9,137ft) to Shira 1 camp (11,496ft) Night one in the tent was a pretty restless one. We’re still ...
Day 3 Shira 1 camp (11,496ft) to Shira 2/Shira Huts camp (12,779ft) via Shira Cathedral (12,671ft) We wake up to a freezing Shira 1 campsite ...
Day 4 Shira 2/Shira Huts camp (12,779ft) to Barranco Camp (13,077ft) via The Lava Tower (15,180ft) Since the start of the trek we have been ...
Day 5 Barranco camp (13,077ft) to Karanga camp (13,235ft) Day five dawns bright and cold in the Barranco valley and my tiredness and somewhat melancholic ...
Day 6 Karanga Valley Camp (13,235ft) to Barafu Huts Camp (15,295ft) Unzipping the tent after the 6.30am wake up call reveals a cold, damp and ...
Day 7 (Part 1) Summit day - Barafu Huts Camp (15,295ft) to Uhuru Peak 19,341ft It's two minutes past midnight and we are 'pulling the ...
Day 7 (Part 2) Summit day - Uhuru Peak 19,341ft to Millennium Huts (12,556ft) Why men climb mountains is a question that has been asked ...
Day 8 Millennium Huts (12,556ft) to Mweka Gate (5,358ft) - The end Unsurprisingly I slept like a log, helped no doubt by the fact that ...
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The Arches National Park is like no place I have ever walked in before. Set high on the desert plateau of Utah, there is little vegetation and the sparse trees are stunted and gnarled by the harsh environment. It’s a raw and exposed place, baking in the day and freezing at night. It is literally the Wild West. What draws visitors to the park are the natural sandstone arches, thousands of them. Fifteen million years of erosion created them and we’re here today to walk among them. It’s as different a landscape to the UK as chalk is to cheese.
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The ‘Bisses’ of the Valais region of Switzerland are long irrigation channels, many of them hundreds of years old, built to channel water from high mountain streams down to pasture land in the valleys below. Carved out from rock along the valley sides many of them follow a precipitous route with dizzying drops below and vertical cliffs above. The Bisse du Torrent Neuf in the central Valais dates back to the 15th century. Thankfully it’s been restored since and today it offers a spectacular out and back walk along the cliff edges, past sheer rock faces and over wobbly suspension bridges.
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