In the highlands of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur not far from the town of Sisteron in the village of Le Caire (Cairo) is found the increasingly popular via Ferrata de la Grande Fistoire. Relatively new on the tour of Europe’s via Ferratas this track has been operating only since 1996. The route requires about 4 hours to complete with multiple bridges, expans...

Walkabout refers to a rite of passage during which male Australian Aborigines would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months. In this practice they would trace the paths, or "songlines", that their people's ceremonials ancestors took, and imitate, in a fashion, their heroic deeds. Merriam-Webster, however, defi...

The Haute Route (or The High Route or Mountaineers' Route) is the name given to a route (with several variations) undertaken on foot or by ski touring between Chamonix, France, and Zermatt, Switzerland. First charted as a summer mountaineering route by members of the Alpine Club (UK) in the mid 19th century, the route takes around 12+ days walking (or 7+ days skiing) ...

The Wonderland Trail is an approximately 93 mile (150 km) hiking trail that circum navigates Mount Rainier in Mount Rainier National Park. The trail goes over many ridges of Mount Rainier for a cumulative 22,000 feet (6,700 m) of elevation gain. The trail was built in 1915. An estimated 200 to 250 people a year complete the entire trail with several thousand others do...