Walking holidays
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This Welsh restaurant with rooms offers peace and seclusion, a Michelin-starred dinner menu of seasonal, local food – and an ace breakfast
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Climbing the world’s ‘highest’ mountain – not Everest, the one in Ecuador – pushes Kevin Rushby to his limits. Plus more mountains for amateur climbers
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Originally published in the Guardian on 17 January 1966: The great bulk of Cross Fell with its plateau ringed with the collar of snow rose up almost like the final slopes of an Alpine peak
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Walk, cycle or kayak around some of the continent’s most stunning and remote corners
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Remote lakes and rivers are no barrier to exploring New Zealand if you have an inflatable raft stowed in your backpack, as our writer discovers on a new ‘packrafting’ tour
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It’s surprising how little freedom we have to walk this land. Now we have more and we must use it responsibly
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Attractions great and small are open on Boxing Day for people looking to enjoy calorie-burning walks and swims or a day in the city without crowds
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The smart way to counteract all the season’s feasting is with a bracing walk – then a warm-up in one of these 25 cosy pubs, chosen by Tony Naylor
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With snowy peaks casting shadows on tropical landscapes, hidden ruins of ancient civilisations and deserts punctuated with immense volcanoes, South America isn’t short of dramatic hikes
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El periodista Feike de Jong hizo una caminata por la periferia de la Ciudad de México. Aquí, describe como esta caminata lo llevo de su vuelta a la niñez y sus encuentros con peleas de gallos
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To get a sense of the true size of the megacity, Feike de Jong decided to walk around its entire 800km-long perimeter. In these extracts from his ebook, the experience takes him back to childhood – and confronts him with cockfighting
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The creation of the Parque Patagonia conservation area – the brainchild of a billionaire US couple – is a step to creating one of the world’s largest national parks. But what’s the hiking like?
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Tour guide David Eglsaer loves the fact that his job lets him spend several months of every year among the stunning peaks of Montana’s Glacier national park
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In 23 years of trekking, the Swiss explorer and survivalist says her three-month walk in Western Australia was her most physically and emotionally demanding
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From hiking to bear watching to braving Dracula’s castle alone, Romania’s wide open spaces are an adventure playground
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Attitudes to Alpine wilderness have changed in the 150 years since the Matterhorn was first climbed: these cutting-edge new buildings treat the mountains gently while still looking great
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In more than 100 wild corners of the UK are free shelters – bothies – for use by walkers. As the charity that runs them turns 50, Phoebe Smith, author of Book of Bothy, picks eight favourites
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Robert Redford and Nick Nolte don backpacks for a wry adaptation of Bill Bryson’s book about the Appalachian trail
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With the film of Bill Bryson’s book A Walk in the Woods in cinemas the US’s Appalachian Trail is braced for more hikers. Which will be fine – if it’s treated with care
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Northern Ireland’s latest tourist attraction, the Gobbins Cliff Path, is a reboot of a magnificent feat of engineering that originally opened in 1902. Michael Bradley, bassist for punk band the Undertones, takes a walk on the wild side
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