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CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONAFRICACape Town’s Three Peaks in Three Days (South Africa)Top of the World: Kilimanjaro (Tanzania)Animal Magic: Zambian Walking SafariAMERICASA Winter Descent of the Grand Canyon (USA)Trekking the ‘W’ in ChileBoston’s Freedom Trail (USA)Rockies Road: The Skyline Trail (Canada)Concepción Volcano Hike (Nicaragua)Border Patrol on the Pacific Crest Trail (USA)Heli-Hiking in the Bugaboo Mountains (Canada)Choquequirao: The Crowd-Free Inca Trail (Peru)The Long (And Winding) Trail (USA)Angels Landing (USA)The Lost Coast Trail (USA)ASIAShikoku’s 88 Sacred Temples Pilgrimage (Japan)Village to Village in the Markha Valley (India)Mamasa to Tana Toraja (Indonesia)Mt Kailash Pilgrimage Circuit (China)Huángshān (China)A Summit of Island Peak (Nepal)Alone on the Great Wall of ChinaThe Hong Kong Trail (China)
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ORIENTATIONStart // Refugio del Pai
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ORIENTATIONStart/End // Canadian Mo
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have only freed about 30% of it fro
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been hoofed up to these Andean heig
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deep in the jungle.Some visitors to
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Angels Landing is a fitting name fo
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himself, but the view you receive a
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LIATHACH, SCOTLANDAs any burly Scot
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sunny May morning. With an outdated
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grassy slopes and crashing sea. Wit
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Not all coastal hikes follow the oc
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temples, beautiful black calligraph
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The trail has changed in that time.
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The good people of Shikoku have bee
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Distance // 40 miles (65km)More inf
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Sometimes, trail maps prove wrong.
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Tacha Gompa, a lonely Buddhist mona
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Later the skies darken beneath a ba
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the route. At Nimaling there’s no
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around Yuksom that are, perhaps iro
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We spent the first night of our tre
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ORIENTATIONStart // MamasaEnd // Po
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This three-day trek leads hikers pa
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Mt Kailash (24,980ft, 6714m) rises
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Chuku Monastery, one of several tha
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prayer flags. Snow-streaked granite
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primarily concerned with spiritual
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Rewind four days and our excitement
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marvelling at other-worldly views:
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WŬDĀNG SHĀNThe apocryphal birthp
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Here you are reading Epic Hikes of
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Reading this, you probably don’t
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rockier, then the shrubs start to t
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moment.Gŭběikōu, these days a qu
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magical, first-light, wall-top hiki
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It’s 5am and I’m standing atop
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Steps. Endless, slippery, winding s
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and other pollinating insects to it
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Later, I creep down creaking stairs
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Seawater. A glint off a wave, a shi
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Distance // 397 miles (640km)© Meg
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Kaleköy promised to be well worth
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As much as history, the trail’s a
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do? We go old-school and use our fe
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On the Alpine slopes above Engelber
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narrow abyss of the Lauterbrunnen V
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hike the route July to September.Wh
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limestone peaks scarred by the elem
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the rocky path to DeiàWell rested,
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TIME AND TIDESo you fancy tagging o
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finest scenery on earth. You’ll s
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catering for office workers and tou
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along the way.Start/End // Ginkaku-
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wonderful respite at Cala Luna beac
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in the smoky glow. It’s a movingl
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Georgia it’s unthinkable to refus
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Distance // 47 miles (75km) from Om
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dramatic Hornbjarg cliffs at the Ho
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ORIENTATIONStart/End // Stock Lane
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hardcore adrenaline. But the trail
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the scallop shell is the symbol of
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frosted glass. The only sounds are
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never been locked.“The A-listers
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essential kitAnd beside it is a vas
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summits dotted around the country a
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solid weeks of moderately challengi
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thick stands of beech trees swathed
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I’ve been a bit of a bridge geek
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Holland honeyeaters feasting on the
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the rickety bridge to Eora Creek“
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and our real lives. RSFLY-BYS ON PA
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walking the beaches of Abel TasmanT
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In the crisp, still dawn, golden su
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peaks in a leisurely five-day high-
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late-afternoon sun, all is still, e
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brush-turkeys. But unless you have
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