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7 Great Walks of Tasmania

Tasmania has always been one of the world’s best kept secrets. It has unique natural beauty, abundant wildlife, unspoilt wilderness and sophisticated food and wine.

The Great Walks of Tasmania is a collection of independent guided walk companies offering unforgettable experiences in Tasmania’s most inspiring and extraordinary locations. They combine the best of Tasmanian wilderness walking with excellent guiding, unique accommodation and offer delicious Tasmanian food and wine along the way. Together their walks cover over 300km of Tasmania’s prime walking tracks.

Variety abounds and there is a walk for every fitness level and time frame; choose for example a 23km walk over 4 days or an 80 km walk over 9 days. Relax in elegant standing camps or tents or stay in an award winning walkers lodge or huts. Prices range from AU$1,095 to AU$2,600 so there is a walk to suit everyone. …

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(via Discover Tasmania)

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Les Stroud – Will to Live

Les Stroud is a Canadian musician, filmmaker, and survival expert …

Recommended.

In Will to Live, Les discusses the following stories of survival:

– Yossi Ghinsberg who survived in the Amazon jungle for 21 days
– Nando Parrado who survived 72 days in the Andes after a plane crash
– The Robertson families tale of survival on the open sea
– Chris McCandless whose survival story ends in the Alaskan wilderness with his death
– The Stolpa family whose winter driving trip almost turns deadly
– The Karluk, a 1913 arctic expedition
– Douglas Mawson who survived 3 brutal months in the Antarctic coast

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Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival Paperback – 2011

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Envirofit clean-burning cook stove

Kraig Becker promotes the Himalayan Stove Project.

Check this article to see what they are doing to make the world a better place:

The problems the Project are addressing and solving are obvious. Inefficient cookstoves in the fragile high Himalayan environment (and elsewhere) cause

1.) indoor air pollution and related health issues due to smoke inhalation,

2.) personal safety hazards to families and their children,

3.) deforestation,

4.) climate change and

5.) economic and other social issues.

The Himalayan Stove Project is a U.S. public charity staffed totally by volunteers who pay all their own expenses, including travel to Nepal. In addition, a growing community of institutions, corporations and individuals supports its very pragmatic mission of making a difference now.

Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) is the planet’s 4th-largest public health threat after malaria, clean water and HIV-Aids.

Changing the World One Cookstove at a Time –

Click PLAY or watch one of the clearer technology stoves on YouTube.

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Mt Kilimanjaro Rongai route

Ahmed Almaziad from Saudi Arabia started hiking 2011. And is now addicted.

Ahmed Almaziad

I found his Mt Kilimanjaro Rongai trip report useful.

(I’ve still not climbed the highest mountain in Africa.)

Check his Corsica GR 20 2013 (north) trip report, as well.

Like me, Ahmed found the start of the GR 20 very difficult. In face he backtracked to town to lighten his pack. And start fresh the next morning.

His blog is SaudiHiker.com.

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Tongariro Circuit, New Zealand

Tongariro Northern Circuit is the best hike in the best trekking region in the world — New Zealand.

How can that be?

Why do we like the circuit better than the dozens of other awesome Kiwi walks?

These videos make it clear. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch a wonderful GreatWalks.co.nz promo on YouTube.

And another. Click PLAY or watch Dave and Tim on a snowy Circuit on YouTube.

We’ve updated and moved our Tongariro Circuit information page. Click through if you might want to organize your own Tongariro Circuit.

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NEW – John Muir Trail

We’ve updated and moved our JMT information page.

AT A GLANCE

  • one of our top 10 hikes in the world
  • start in stunning Yosemite, Muir’s “Range of Light”
  • 223mi (360km) to Whitney Portal adding sidetrips to Half Dome, Vermillion Resort and Mt. Whitney 14,505ft (4,421m)
  • 15-21 days recommended
  • most hikers carry their own food and tent (pack animals can be hired, however)

Rick on the JMT

… read more here

If you’ve hiked the John Muir recently, check that page for accuracy. We’ve not been there since 2007. Too long.