The Hiking World

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Canonical hiking records with distance, SAC and YDS, water, permits, and access. A reference encyclopedia, not a turn-by-turn planner.

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Machapuchare above the Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal

What this is

How a trail record is built

  • Figures with sources

    Distance, elevation, and grade can carry a source and a last-verified date. If we do not know a number, it stays unknown.

  • Logistics other apps skip

    Water availability, permit warnings, and whether you can reach the trailhead without a car sit on the record.

  • Coverage outside the usual map

    The desk prioritizes Asia, the Global South, South America, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, plus long-distance walking.

  • One grade, two scales

    Every trail shows SAC, YDS, and a plain-language label together. We do not publish a bare “moderate”.

From the desk

Sourced records, not track dumps

All 44 records
  • Annapurna Base Camp, Nepal

    Annapurna

    Annapurna Base Camp Trek

    Teahouse trek from the Modi Khola valley into the Annapurna Sanctuary, a glacial amphitheatre at 4,130 m.

    70 km · 7d · SAC T3

  • Tengboche on the Everest Base Camp trek, Nepal

    Khumbu

    Everest Base Camp Trek

    Curated record — the classic Lukla↔EBC trek is not mapped as a single OSM route relation; geometry is a curated assembly. Schematic 42.9 km village line from Lukla to Everest Base Camp (out-and-back). Vertical figures are an 8-point GLO-30 sample of that schematic, not a walking profile. typicalDays 13 is the recognised teahouse itinerary with acclimatisation (typical, not an official duration statute); published windows are about 12–14 days.

    42.9 km · 13d · SAC T2

  • Cuernos del Paine from Laguna Los Cisnes, Chile

    Torres del Paine

    Torres del Paine W Trek

    Four-to-five day traverse of the Paine massif, linking the Torres viewpoint, the French Valley, and Grey Glacier.

    80 km · 5d · SAC T2

Where we have records

Coverage by country and subregion

  • Annapurna South in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

    Southern Asia · Nepal

    Annapurna

    North-central Nepal massif. Teahouse valleys host some of the Himalaya's busiest long treks, with logistics still thinly documented in English.

    11 trails

  • Ama Dablam in the Khumbu Himal, Nepal

    Southern Asia · Nepal

    Khumbu

    The Everest region — Sherpa villages, Sagarmatha National Park, and the teahouse route to Everest Base Camp.

    1 trail

  • Torres del Paine National Park, Chile

    South America · Chile

    Torres del Paine

    Granite massif in Chilean Patagonia. Weather dominates the walking. Refugios, ferries, and permits matter as much as the line on the map.

    1 trail

  • Theth valley in the Accursed Mountains, Albania

    Southern Europe · Albania

    Peaks of the Balkans

    Cross-border circuit through Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro. Mapping is thin and a permit is required to cross the borders on foot.

    1 trail

  • Triglav from the Preval pasture, Julian Alps, Slovenia

    Southern Europe · Slovenia

    Slovenia

    Hut-to-hut national long-distance walking from the northeast to the Adriatic. English logbooks and storm-damage status are thin.

    1 trail

  • Wadi Rum desert, Jordan

    Western Asia · Jordan

    Jordan

    Long-distance desert and highland walking from Umm Qais to Aqaba. Water caches and section permits are the logistics story.

    1 trail

  • Glen Coe, Scottish Highlands

    Northern Europe · United Kingdom

    Scottish Highlands

    Long-distance walking in the western Highlands. The spine is well documented; seasonal diversions and reroutes are poorly tracked publicly.

    1 trail

  • Road toward Golconda Fort on the Deccan Plateau, Telangana

    Southern Asia · India

    Deccan Plateau (Telangana)

    Granite-dome fort climbs and forest-hill day treks on the Deccan Plateau near Hyderabad — high weekend traffic, thin standardized data. Not the Western Ghats / Sahyadri.

    4 trails

  • The Fethiye coast at the western start of the Lycian Way, Türkiye

    Western Asia · Türkiye

    Lycia

    Waymarked long-distance coastal path along ancient Lycia in southwest Türkiye, Fethiye toward Antalya, past Lycian ruins and the Taurus coast.

    1 trail

  • Rhyolite hills at Landmannalaugar, Iceland

    Northern Europe · Iceland

    Landmannalaugar

    Hut-to-hut trek across Iceland's southern highlands — rhyolite mountains, obsidian fields, hot springs, and glacial rivers.

    1 trail

  • Fiordland National Park, New Zealand

    Australia and New Zealand · New Zealand

    Fiordland

    Glacier-carved Fiordland — alpine ridgelines, beech forest, and the DOC Great Walks.

    3 trails

  • Koyasan in winter on the Kii Peninsula, Japan

    Eastern Asia · Japan

    Kii Peninsula

    Forested UNESCO pilgrimage routes of the Kii Mountains to the Kumano grand shrines.

    1 trail

  • Hadrian's Wall west of Housesteads, Northumberland

    Northern Europe · United Kingdom

    Hadrian's Wall

    England's Roman-frontier National Trail across the neck of the country, Wallsend on the Tyne to the Solway coast.

    1 trail

  • Jotunheimen high country toward Besseggen, Norway

    Northern Europe · Norway

    Jotunheimen

    Norway's high mountains — Jotunheimen's peaks and the Besseggen ridge above Lake Gjende.

    1 trail

  • Dove Lake circuit below Cradle Mountain, Tasmania

    Australia and New Zealand · Australia

    Tasmania

    Tasmania's alpine heart — Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair through buttongrass moor, rainforest, and dolerite peaks.

    1 trail

  • Ascent on Tongariro, Tongariro National Park, New Zealand

    Australia and New Zealand · New Zealand

    Tongariro

    New Zealand's oldest national park — active volcanoes, craters, and emerald lakes on the Central Plateau.

    2 trails

  • GR20 country between Carozzu and Asco, Corsica

    Southern Europe · France

    Corsica

    The granite spine of Corsica — the GR20 traverses the island's high mountains through the Parc Naturel Régional de Corse.

    1 trail

  • Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Dolomites, Italy

    Southern Europe · Italy

    Dolomites

    The pale peaks of the Dolomites — Alta Via 1 links rifugi from Lago di Braies south to Belluno.

    1 trail

  • Mont Blanc and the Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix, France

    Western Europe · France

    Mont Blanc

    The classic circuit of the Mont Blanc massif — a ~170 km loop across France, Italy, and Switzerland from Les Houches. Filed here under France (the usual start); the walk is three-country.

    1 trail

  • Cape St. Vincent on the Vicentine Coast, Portugal

    Southern Europe · Portugal

    Southwest Alentejo & Vicentine Coast

    Portugal's wild southwest Atlantic coast — cliff-top and beach walking through the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park.

    1 trail

  • Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland

    Northern Europe · Ireland

    County Kerry

    The Iveragh Peninsula of southwest Ireland — the Kerry Way loops from Killarney through mountains, boglands, and old green roads.

    1 trail

  • Mount Whitney, Sierra Nevada, California

    Northern America · United States

    Sierra Nevada

    California's high Sierra — granite domes, alpine passes, and the contiguous US's highest terrain, spanning Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia.

    1 trail

  • Machu Picchu at sunrise, Cusco region, Peru

    South America · Peru

    Cusco

    The Andean heartland of the former Inca empire — high passes, cloud forest, and Inca stonework leading to Machu Picchu.

    1 trail

  • Himalayan peaks in Nepal

    Southern Asia · Nepal

    Manaslu

    A remote restricted-area circuit around the world's eighth-highest peak, through Nubri and Tsum Buddhist valleys near the Tibetan border.

    1 trail

  • Lysefjord in Ryfylke, Norway

    Northern Europe · Norway

    Ryfylke

    The Lysefjord region of southwestern Norway — steep fjord walls and the Preikestolen cliff plateau.

    1 trail

  • The Pyrenees above Taüll

    Western Europe · France

    Pyrenees

    The French Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean — the GR 10 traverses the range on the north slope.

    1 trail

  • The Matterhorn at sunset, Valais, Switzerland

    Western Europe · Switzerland

    Valais

    The Pennine Alps of southwest Switzerland — high passes and mountain huts between Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn.

    1 trail

  • Mount Fitz Roy, Los Glaciares, Argentina

    South America · Argentina

    Los Glaciares

    Argentine Patagonia's national park of granite spires and glaciers around El Chaltén and Mount Fitz Roy.

    1 trail

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