On foot · long-distance trails

Hiking

The long walks — multi-day traverses across alps, deserts and wilderness. Each one has a journey map, the numbers, and a gallery. A record of where my feet have taken me, and where they’re headed next.

01Completed

2025

The Dolomites · Italy

Alta Via 1

The classic high route through the Dolomites: Lago di Braies south to Belluno, hut to hut beneath the pale vertical walls and across high cols, a string of rifugios stitched between limestone cathedrals.

120 km10 days2,752 m

2025

West MacDonnell Ranges · Australia · NT

Larapinta Trail

End to end along the spine of the West MacDonnell Ranges: Alice Springs Telegraph Station west to Mt Sonder. Red quartzite ridgelines, hidden gorges and waterholes, and the desert sky at night.

223 km14 days1,380 m

2024

Cradle Mtn – Lake St Clair · Australia · Tasmania

Overland Track

Through the heart of the Tasmanian wilderness: Cradle Mountain south to Lake St Clair. Button-grass moorland, glacial tarns, rainforest and waterfalls, with side trips up Tasmania’s highest peaks.

65 km6 days1,617 m

2023

Pennine Alps · Valais · Switzerland

Walker’s Haute Route

The Swiss high traverse to the foot of the Matterhorn: walked from Le Châble over seven alpine passes through the Valais, by the Pas de Chèvres ladders and a string of glacier-fed lakes, to a Matterhorn finish at Zermatt.

100 km7 days2,987 m

02On the list

planned

Andes · Sacred Valley · Peru

Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

The original royal road to Machu Picchu: Inca stone stairways over high passes and through cloud forest, arriving at the Sun Gate above the lost city at dawn.

43 km4 days4,215 m

planned

Mont Blanc massif · France · Italy · Switzerland

Tour du Mont Blanc

The full circuit of the Mont Blanc massif: a loop through three countries, around the highest mountain in the Alps, over a chain of high cols with the summit never far from view.

170 km11 days2,665 m

planned

Khumbu · Himalaya · Nepal

Everest Base Camp

Up the Khumbu valley to the foot of the highest mountain on Earth: Lukla to Base Camp, acclimatising through Sherpa villages and monasteries, to the viewpoint of Kala Patthar at 5,644 m.

130 km12 days5,644 m

planned

Patagonia · Chile

Torres del Paine · O Circuit

The full loop around the Paine massif: the wild back side over the John Gardner Pass above Grey Glacier, then the famous W, finishing under the granite towers at first light.

130 km8 days1,200 m

planned

Arctic Lapland · Sweden

Kungsleden · The King’s Trail

The northern stretch of Sweden’s King’s Trail — Abisko to Nikkaluokta through Arctic tundra above the tree line, past Sweden’s highest mountain, in the land of the midnight sun.

105 km7 days1,150 m

planned

Corsica · France

GR20

Often called the toughest trail in Europe — the high traverse of Corsica north to south, along a jagged granite spine of scrambles, slabs and exposed ridgelines between the sea and the sky.

180 km15 days2,607 m