Get a feel for the southernmost 809 mi / 1,302 km of the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) by scrolling through photos from south to north.
Te Araroa Trail documentary
Comfort Theory hikes the 3000 km track from Cape Reinga to Bluff, New Zealand.
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.
Watch the full documentary (25 minutes) for free on Outside TV via Amazon. After the first week that service costs $4.99 / month.
The Rift – 9 months walking Africa’s Rift Valley
A new documentary.
Louis Devereux producer:
In September 2015 Robert Devereux, my father, set out to do it himself, attempting to become the first person in the world to do it in one go! …
Robert finished walking in April 2016. After nearly three years of working on this documentary I am now asking for your help. …
We are very close to a finished film, we have a 75 minute cut and are tweaking in the edit suite even as the campaign is live. …
Click PLAY or watch a clip on Vimeo.
Masahito Yoshida ends 10 years walking
Yoshida’s journey has taken him all around the world — from Asia to North America to Africa — on a trip he says spanned about 77,500 kilometres. …
Yoshida plans to head back to Japan next — this time by plane — where he said he’ll take on a job working at a hotel at Mount Fuji, and get some rest.
Now, he’s finished it all off in the North, walking the new highway from Inuvik to reach the Arctic coast, in Tuktoyaktuk.
A walk in his shoes: Japanese man caps off years-long walk around world in Tuktoyaktuk
“I’m so tired now,” says Masahito Yoshida, who started walking from China nearly 10 years ago
Te Araroa Trail, New Zealand
Te Araroa (The Long Pathway) is New Zealand‘s long distance tramping route, stretching ~3000 km (1850 miles) along the length of the country’s two main islands from Cape Reinga to Bluff.
It is made up of a mixture of older tracks and walkways, new tracks and link sections alongside roads. …
Most thru-hikers take between three and six months for a complete trip. …
Attitude Over Ability did a good chunk of the Te Araroa — the wilder south island.
- 1,200km walked
- 53 days walking
- 15 zero days
BUDGET in New Zealand dollars for 53 days:
- Travel within NZ ~ $270
- Accommodation ~ $1,500
- Food ~ $2,500
- Misc ~$1,500
Read her trip report.
More trip reports.
official website
Click PLAY or watch a preview on YouTube.
Ash Dykes to walk the Yangtze
Everest Three Passes Trek
Click PLAY or watch Ryan Van Duzer on YouTube. (2016)
eldest A.T. thru hiker
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
600km+ Huella Andina hike, Argentina
UPDATE from Mariano Rezk:
I walked it myself in January 2017. It is true that the government stopped the funding, but I must disagree about the fact that “a large proportion of the trails are closed”. Only about 5 out of 43 stages are closed (that’s less than 15%).
There’s a lot of room for improvement but Huella Andina is still one of the best ways to hike-thru and discover the argentinean side of the northern Patagonia.
The Huella Andina is a series of routes totalling about 600km. They are not all connected.
Some sections are signposted and marked. Some are not.
There are numerous resupply points along the way.
Jan Dudeck:
In 2017 the government of Argentina officially stopped funding the trail project Huella Andina. Some national parks maintain some routes with other funds but a large proportion of the trails are closed and becoming quickly overgrown. Several parts of the Huella Andina were not traversable since the season 2016/2017.
I checked in person with Club Andino Bariloche and the Nahuel Huapi National Park Office about their section of the Huella Andina. It exists. But is far less popular than the other hikes.
They gave me a free map of the Huella Andina showing about 27 hours of hiking over 4 sections. Difficulty of those sections was rated easy to severe. In fact, a parks officer recommended hiring a guide for the 10 hours between Refugio Jacob to Los Cesares.
In addition, there’s a section of road walking.
Click PLAY or watch 18 days of highlights on YouTube.
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Huella Andina connects to the Greater Patagonian Trail on the shore of Lago Puelo. Adventurers might try to loop sections of the two new long distance hikes.
If you want to know more check Wikiexplora – Huella Andina (Spanish)
10 long distance hiking trails
1. Appalachian Trail
2. GR10
3. Greater Patagonian Trail
4. Te Araroa Trail
5. Rim of Africa Trail
6. Tokai Nature Trail
7. Great Divide Trail
8. E1 European Long-Distance Path
9. South West Coast Path
10. Great Himalaya Trail
Long-distance hiking trail from around the world to tackle in 2018
The article uses one of my photos from the southern coast of South Africa on hike #5.
I’m soon headed for Patagonia where I hope to do more sections of #3 – Greater Patagonian Trail.
Thanks George.
