Outside Adventure Travel: Trekking (Outside Books)

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Outside Books introduces a unique series of international sport/travel guides: your favorite adventure sports, our top picksx2014;worldwidex2014;of where to pursue them.Follow in the footsteps of early twentieth-century explorers on twenty treks spanning six continents that range from Everest Base Camp to a pilgrimage across the Pyrenees. They include: the mysterious Ruwenzori mountains in the heart of Africa; five classic Himalayan tours, including the Annapurna Circuit and seldom-visited Snow Lake; an adventure to the Tekes River Valley in central Asia, country rarely seen by Westerners since the Soviets sealed off the region in the 1920s; sunset from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, the highest point in Africa; a hut-to-hut trek in Italyx2019;s storied Dolomites; and a llama trek through the surreal redrock desert canyons of southern Utahx2019;s Escalante.

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Journalist David Noland has traveled just about everywhere and written about it for Outside, The New York Times, and other publications. He is the author of Travels Along the Edge: 40 Ultimate Adventures for the Modern Nomad.