Best hikes, treks, tramps in the world.
William and Alexandra Mackesy posted the Spring 2013 edition of Walkopedia Magazine online.
Highlights from their excellent website, Walkopedia:
– Scotland, Cairngorms, UK
– Glacier National Park, USA
Check it out – Spring 2013 edition of Walkopedia Magazine
Timing is perfect.
A new guidebook for the start of the Himalayan hiking and climbing Spring season.
Himalayan Map House is delighted to announce the publication of a new trekking guide to the Manaslu & Tsum Valley region – the fastest growing trekking destination in Nepal.
… Manaslu and the Tsum Valley are rapidly becoming the new trekking destination for both experienced and novice trekkers. As if these two treks were not enough to savour, the book also introduces new treks in the Lower Manaslu area around historic Gorkha, as far north as the Rupina La route. Also within the book are some fledgling routes below little-known Ganesh Himal, including the Ruby Valley.
It may not have the aura of Everest or Annapurna, but the majestic mountain of Manaslu (8163m) has a remote charm that calls on all trekkers to discover the undiscovered. Lush forests, terraced hillsides, mysterious canyons, gargantuan summits and Buddhist culture are enticing. For so long beyond the horizon, the Tsum Valley is astonishing and secretive. Hilltop monasteries, traditional villages,
colourful people, enigmatic yaks and hundreds of mani walls, chortens and kani gates add to the compulsive blend.
That’s where I’m headed next trip to Nepal.
Backpacker magazine recycles these (meaningless) list articles. But I still find them useful.
The Perfect Circle: Hiking the Annapurna Circuit
Chile’s Torres del Paine Circuit
Corsica’s GR 20
Peru’s Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Italy’s Alta Via 1
New Zealand’s Milford Track
England’s Pennine Way
Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro
Everest Base Camp, Tibet
Tour du Mont Blanc
details – HIKE THE CLASSICS (2009)
As chosen by Rough Guide.
I’ve been to 10 of the 20. And am planning on Table Mountain, South Africa. Soon.
See the full list on photo slideshow.
Lonely Planet:
… just want to want to enjoy a good trek without worrying about acclimatising?
Altitude sickness, which usually kicks in around 2500-3000 metres (8200-9850 feet) and higher, affects some (but not all) of us, no matter how healthy you are.
And while we love Peru’s Inca Trail and Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro, both of these iconic treks hit heights that can affect your health and prevent you from summiting.
So we’ve rounded up the five best treks that feature unique terrain and boast fantastic scenery …
• W trek, Torres del Paine, Chile
• Bathali village treks, Nepal
• Milford Track, New Zealand
• GR20, Corsica, France
• Grand Canyon: rim to rim, Arizona
BBC has sold Lonely Planet, by the way.
Keiko and Dave trekked Chile’s famed W from west to east.
Fantastic pics. Plenty of FOOD. 🙂
See the rest on the full trip report – Mini Guide for 5 days in TORRES DEL PAINE – CHILE – W trail
related – our Torres del Paine information page
Check a new book – Patagonia Chronicle: On Foot in Torres del Paine by Susan Alcorn.
My favourite hiking website is Walkopedia.net.
That’s William and Alexandra Mackesy.
They aspire to database a complete collection of the world’s great walks and hikes by 2020.
I love it. 🙂
Supplementing the website, they publish regular online magazines. Check out the Christmas 2012 edition:
Cappadocia, Turkey
Kilimanjaro from Mt Meru
Cappadocian classic: Rose Valley
Photo Essay: Ben Duncan’s Wind River Mountains
Inquisition on Mount Athos
Best camp tucker
New on Walkopedia Website
I’ve not yet used a Milestone Guidebook, but they are getting some good press.
Check them out for yourselves at milestoneguides.com
Gore-Tex Scottish National Trail Launches
New Scotland End to End route is unveiled with accompanying book and BBC TV programme.
… a new long distance route linking Kirk Yetholm in the borders with Cape Wrath in the north west of the country linking various existing long distance trails to form a single 470-mile walk.
The trail is the brainchild of longstanding walking writer and broadcaster, Cameron McNeish, and, in parlour game parlance, is both a newly published book, authored by McNeish and a television programme produced by BBC Scotland and set to be broadcast over the Christmas / New Year period. …
Thus far the new route has no waymarking of its own, bar new plaques to be sited at Kirk Yetholm and Cape Wrath along with one at the Water of Leith Visitor Centre in Edinburgh and the Cape Wrath Trail stretch isn’t signposted at all.
In other words, for now at least, it’s mostly a line on a map …
… The GORE-TEX® Scottish National Trail will also have its own website showing the route and GORE-TEX® Footwear plans to link key sections of the route with local and regional outdoor shops to help drive footfall into local retailing outlets. …
BEWARE midges.
(via Hiking in Finland)
Ned Judge:
An eight minute film essay that I co-produced and directed with Ed Abbey in 1985. …
We met in Moab and went out to Arches National Park to shoot some practice sessions with a home video camera. We would review them at the motel in the evening. After a day or two, Ed was feeling pretty comfortable on camera so we scheduled the shoot. We were all happy with the way it went.
But then we ran head-on into network reality. Roger Mudd, the show’s host, was extremely negative about putting an “eco-terrorist” on the show. … So this Abbey essay was put on the shelf and never aired.
Abbey died 3 years later in March 1989.
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire. Writer Larry McMurtry referred to Abbey as the “Thoreau of the American West“. …
The story of his death and burial is … very Abbey.
Those two books are MUST READS for any serious outdoorsperson.
(via Rocky who calls Edward Abbey the Hunter Thompson of the environment)
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