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Many visit the Costa Blanca but few leave the beaches and head inland to enjoy the delights of the Alicante Mountains. Here there are soaring limestone peaks contrasting with lush terraces and olive groves. Great walking and trekking can be found here and also some very interesting mountain scrambling
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Hiking in Norway is an incredible experience. Find a few of the most spectacular areas of them all, from the wild and extreme to family-friendly fun.
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Images from Jimmy Chin and other National Geographic photographers documenting the extreme climbing culture evolving in Yosemite National Park.
(not really about trekking, but climbing is a passion too, and pictures are just amazing)
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March 24, 2013 6:36 AM
Encore un exemple d'escalade de l'extreme, cette fois avec Jimmy Chin, personnage assez célébre à Yosemite pour avoir tourné un documentaire explicatif sur les parois à escalader sur le site. Lui non plus n'utilise pas de corde.
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Colca Canyon, at 4,160 meters (13,648 feet) from top to bottom, is twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. However, there is no consensus on the “deepest” title, as there are a variety of methods to measure a canyon. There are a few canyons in the Himalayas and one other in Peru that some consider deeper. Regardless, Colca Canyon shot to the top of our list of must-see natural wonders.
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Images from a 9 day trekking in the desert, Morocco.
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Over 120 of the world’s active volcanoes can be found dotted around Indonesia, often with settlements clinging precariously close to the smoldering rims.
Visitors to Indonesia have many opportunities to climb active volcanoes. While often challenging, the views from the summit and the thrill of knowing what is going on beneath the surface will have you falling in love with every menacing, foul-smelling caldera.
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For those who want to experience a holiday in Italy getting away for a while from the city to dive into the nature, our advice is trekking on Etna. A journey through the largest volcano in Europe, which still enchants with its evocative eruptions.
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Jason Wire shows us a different way to trek Spain’s perilous El Caminito del Rey.
If you’ve heard of the Caminito del Rey in Málaga, Spain, it is probably because it’s often referred to as “The World’s Most Dangerous Walkway.” It is blogged about from afar, with pictures taken from what seem to be impossible angles by death-wishing photographers. To trek it, you imagine yourself cringing or flattening yourself against the wall like a living shadow. Great post, with awesome pictures and story!
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21 -25 March 2011
As we traveled inland and away from the wet, west coast the scenery quickly changed from dramatic and deserted coastline to steep glacial valleys where wide blue lakes are filled by impossibly wide and braided crystal clear rivers. From my perspective, one of the best things about New Zealand thus far are the wide, braided, and glacially fed rivers. Wow, I think I’m in love.
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Great story and pictures of a 5-weeks trek in Himalaya...
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A natural border between Spain and France, the Pyrenees stretch for 400+ kms between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
The mountain range’s highest peak is 3404m and 128 other peaks pass the 3000m mark. In this mountain playground, mountain travelers are active in ice climbing, glacier treks, rock climbing and paragliding and gentle hikes.
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By Jeanine Barone on April 5, 2011. Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii.
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A wilderness trekker explores the genesis of the next jewel in the Parks Canada crown: Labrador’s Mealy Mountains...
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One of the most challenging and alluring targets for many while trekking, peaks attract a certain status in people’s minds. Many people want to reach the top of Kilimanjaro, while the most ambitious set their hearts on Everest. However, there are other mountains around the world that are perhaps a little less known – but by no means less worthy of trekking. Peaks such as Island Peak and Mera Peak in the Himalaya are stunning as well as challenging.
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For thousands of years, Mt. Fuji has been considered a sacred natural spot. Today the dormant volcano is also tourist destination for day-trippers out of Tokyo and hikers who want to experience the summit.
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With the summer fast approaching, many of us are no doubt making plans for our vacations, with many electing to visit a national park once again this year. The vast majority of those visitors will never wander far from their car, but to get a true sense of what the parks have to offer, you really should ditch the vehicle and strike out under your own power. In doing so, you'll get a much better sense of the landscapes around you, and have a better chance of connecting with nature too. Here are five ways that you can do just that.
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Last blog post of a Nick and Rachel's trip to New Zealand.
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While not officially considered one of the country’s “Great Walks,” the 71-kilometer (45-mile) Queen Charlotte Track is nonetheless a popular hiking option in New Zealand. The Track passes through secluded bays, historic sites and coastal forests and bush at the very tip of the country’s South Island in an area known as the Marlborough Sounds.
The Marlborough Sounds is made up of a variety of Sounds — including the impressive and beautiful Queen Charlotte Sound.
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Across the Himalaya, whether on an Everest Base Camp trek, the Annapurna Circuit or elsewhere, visitors will undoubtedly encounter mani stones: large and small stones engraved with a short piece of writing in Tibetan, propped up against a large rock or forming an entire wall alongside part of the track. What are they? What do they signify?
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Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. That fact alone guarantees its popularity. Yet many who summit talk of it as a bit of a struggle. You don't enjoy the climb, you are just glad to get there. Largely ignored by those same trekkers just a couple of hundred miles away on the equator lies Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak and arguably its most beautiful.
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If you are an adrenaline addict and adventure lover, plus you can boast excellent psychical condition and strong nerves, you should try one of these mountain routes. Called iron ways or via ferratas, these paths will provide you with a bunch of challenges and thrills. Not for acrophobes!
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With glaciers wrapped around tall dark mountain peaks, and continual wind blowing through fields and forests, Patagonia's wild landscape may seem daunting and unconquerable. However, trekking Mount Fitz Roy proves to be an exhilarating yet perfectly achievable experience.
Located in Parque Nacional Los Glaciers, Argentina's National Park, Mount Fitz Roy is the most popular trekking destination in all of Argentine Patagonia.
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Welcome to the Chile’s most famous national park! Named as Torres del Paine, it is nestled in southern Patagonia and is loaded with snowy mountains, granite rocky peaks, waterfalls, rivers, glacier-fed lakes, meadows, thick Magellanic forests, and abundant of wildlife rendering each corner captivatingly scenic!
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