The New Zealand Herald: From hobo chic to high-tech hikers: Has tramping gone soft?
Trekking, backpacking, hiking, tramping. It’s all just walking in the outdoors, innit? Yeah. Nah. So what’s the nah? Trekking tends to be global – long-distance, high-endurance journeys through ...
The Guardian: ‘Leave things better than you find them’: the volunteer army cleaning New Zealand’s remote hiking huts
‘Leave things better than you find them’: the volunteer army cleaning New Zealand’s remote hiking huts
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Trekking is the preferred word used to describe multi-day hiking in the mountainous regions of India, Pakistan, Nepal, North America, South America, Iran, and the highlands of East Africa. Hiking a long-distance trail from end-to-end is also referred to as trekking and as thru-hiking in some places. [9]
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