Best hikes, treks, tramps in the world.
The world’s most travelled hiker, Cam Honan, has 3 coffee table books in the series.
Ideal inspiration for future hikes, click through to check them out:
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Hank and Brian Leukart pick their favourites including:
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Paul Magnanti has hiked the Triple Crown (AT, PCT, CDT).
Here are his favourite outdoor adventures of the past 10 years:
2011 – High and Lonesome Loop, Indian Peaks Wildnerness
2014 – Hovenweep National Monument
2015 – Wild Rivers Recreation Area
2017 – Walking Across Southern Utah
2019 – Northern New Mexico Loop
There’s nobody I link to more than Cam Honan of TheHikingLIfe.com.
So far as I know, he’s the most travelled hiker in the world.
Cam “Swami” Honan:
Over the past ten years my journeys taken me from the snow-capped peaks of Peru to the Aurora Borealis of Arctic Norway, and from the pristine wilderness of Southwest Tasmania to the longest journey of my hiking life, an 18 month, 14,342 mile (23,081 km) peregrination through the backcountry of North America.
… Without further ado, here are some of my hiking highlights from 2010 to 2019 (in no particular order):
1. Southwest Tasmania Traverse (Australia, 2016)
2. Cordillera Blanca Traverse (Peru, 2014)
3. Copper Canyon Traverse (Mexico, 2013)
4. Long Crossing of the Lofoten Islands (Norway, 2018)
5. Sangre de Cristo Traverse (USA, 2016)
6. Cocuy Circuit (Colombia, 2015)
7. Altiplano Traverse (Bolivia, 2017)
8. Badlands Traverse (USA, 2016)
9. Cordillera Real Traverse (Bolivia, 2017)
10. 12 Long Walks (USA & Canada, 2011/12)
Here are some of my other favourite rambles from the past decade:
Click through for details on This Hiking Life.
Legend is one of 17.3 million adults in the United States who have experienced a depressive episode. He hikes to get into a positive frame of mind.
He’s only the second hiker (after Skurka) to complete the Great Western Loop, a 7,000-mile route that covers portions of the Pacific Crest, Pacific Northwest, Continental Divide, Grand Enchantment, and Arizona Trails. It took him 208 days and 15 hours.
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Skurka is one of the greatest hikers all time. All hail.
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(via Adventure Blog)
Blake Robinson is well into his attempt to Walk The Parks.
Walk The Parks is a journey exploring the 49 National Parks in the lower 48 via human power, mostly walking.
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“Unbounded” shows the beauty, the cultural richness but also the challenges of this trail network. I highly recommend watching this work of art to all prospective hikers as part of their preparation.
— Jan Dudeck (creator of GPT)
Four young people who didn’t know each other at the start hiked 4 months on the Greater Patagonia Trail in Chile.
Only one had much experience hiking.
They made plenty of mistakes. Carried huge packs. At the start they could only manage about 7km / day.
The Greater Patagonia Trail is a route, not a trail. It’s unsigned. It’s wilderness. It’s very challenging.
Despite many, many problems, the documentary turned out to be quite entertaining. I recommend it.
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqNtT3m2QEs
I watched on Amazon Prime. But it is available on other video streaming sites.
Getúlio Felipe is a 14-year old kid born with cerebral palsy. That didn’t stop him climbing the highest mountain in the Italian Dolomites 3,343 m (10,968 ft).
… At the age of four, he was advised to start using a wheelchair, which he refused. He told the world he was going to learn to walk.
Age 5, nothing. Age 6, nothing.Age 7, Getulio took his first steps. This in itself was an achievement no one saw possible, but in his own words, “the impossible does not exist”.
His sheer determination has inspired people around the world, giving people hope when they had lost it. …
… climbing Marmolada involves crossing a glacier with huge crevasses and then a steep climb requiring ropes, crampons, and ice axes. Just to add to the difficulty, there was a deep snowpack …
Accompanying Getúlio on this journey were Pedro McCardell, creator of Lyfx, an app that conects travelers to local guides, Alessio Nardellotto, an experienced climber from the Dolomites, Alberto Benchimol and Stefano Fabris, who worked as a separate support team for safety and image capture.
He got into hiking in his 20s, but it was trekking and scrambling in little know wilderness on four continents visited on his five-year-long H.M.S. Beagle voyage between 1831 and 1836 that cement him as one of the most worldly hikers in history.
“Mount Darwin” is the highest peak in Tierra del Fuego. On February 12, 1834, Captain FitzRoy named a mountain after him on his birthday. …
Darwin walked mainly to discover plants and animals unique to those regions.
I learned all this by reading his travelogue Voyage of the Beagle.
By the way, the famous phrase “survival of the fittest” comes from Herbert Spencer’s 1864 publication, “Principles of Biology.” The term is largely thought to have been coined by Darwin regarding his thoughts on evolution; however, this is a wrong assumption.
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