Six Days Chasing a Clear Sky at Fitz Roy
Fitz Roy was in cloud for four of our six days. That is the number worth writing down before the pretty photos, because it is the number that governs the whole trip:…
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Ten Days, Three Countries: Notes from the TMB
The Tour du Mont Blanc does not feel like 170 km until day seven, when the accumulated 10,050 m of gain finally catches up with your legs on the climb out of Courmayeur. It…
Three Passes, One Circuit: Everest Beyond Base Camp
Three passes, three glacier crossings, and 5,535 m at Kongma La’s high point — this circuit is the Khumbu’s classic teahouse trek turned up a full grade. We took 18 days against the…
Eleven Days Under Siula Grande
The Huayhuash circuit is 130 km of the Andes at their most vertical — 7,800 m of gain packed into eleven days, with the route’s high point at 5,020 m on Punta Cuyoc. Every day…
Milford, Then Routeburn: Two Tracks, One Week
Milford Track first, Routeburn second, five days total against a stated 5–6, and the difference between them is the whole story of Fiordland: Milford is rainforest and waterfalls in a trench between…
Four Seasons in an Afternoon on the Overland Track
Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair in six days, 65 km, 2,450 m of gain — on paper the gentlest-sounding trek in this directory, and the one that surprised us most. Tasmania’s weather changes…
The Ladders of the West Coast Trail
The West Coast Trail is 75 km of ladders, cable cars, and surge-channel scrambling along Vancouver Island’s Pacific edge — 1,850 m of gain that undersells the effort completely, because most of it is…