Trekking

28 km round trip to the rock tongue jutting over Ringedalsvatnet — some 90,000 hikers a year.

Sixteen days around Manaslu in a restricted zone — the Annapurna Circuit as it was thirty years ago.

Eight days in Europe's last true wilderness, reached along the Kungsleden — no trails, no huts and no bridges once you are inside.

The Lofotodden traverse to Kvalvika and Horseid — white-sand beaches with no road behind them.

The high route in summer — Orla Perć's chains and ladders, then Rysy and the top of Poland at 2,499 m.

The single most photographed viewpoint in Norway.

Multi-day hut-to-hut traverses across the Dolomites, sleeping in rifugi with a view most hotels cannot buy.

One hundred and seventy kilometres around the roof of the Alps, through three countries, sleeping in mountain huts.

Four days on the original stone road, reaching the Sun Gate at dawn before the buses.

Forty kilometres and 3,776 vertical metres from a beach in Shizuoka to the summit — the whole mountain, from zero.

Slovenia's highest peak by protected ridge — a via-ferrata rite of passage to 2,864 m.

Eighteen days in the Khumbu taking the high circuit rather than the base camp highway.

Pico del Teide, 3,715 m — Spain's highest summit, reached on a permit-capped final cone.

Two weeks around the Annapurnas, from subtropical valleys to a 5,400 m pass and down into desert.

Three weeks from Yosemite to the summit of Mount Whitney, over eight passes and mostly above the treeline.

Continuously erupting, permanently in the news, and visible from most of eastern Sicily.

Europe's hardest waymarked trail — fifteen days of granite scrambling down the island's mountain backbone.

Five days across the Icelandic interior from Landmannalaugar to Þórsmörk, finishing over the Fimmvörðuháls pass between two glaciers.

Four days through Fiordland to Milford Sound, on a track with fifty walkers a day and no more.

Seven days on the high ridge from Kamikochi to Tsurugi, sleeping in mountain huts that serve rice at altitude.

Three days on the Polish–Czech watershed over Śnieżka, sleeping in some of the oldest mountain huts in Europe.

A UNESCO site that looks structurally impossible in every photograph ever taken of it.

Three days on an island where it rains most days, to a cedar that was already ancient when Rome fell.

Refuge A to the Mytikas scramble at 2,918 m — climbing the mythic throne of the gods.