Routes, sourced. Not planned for you.
Canonical hiking records with distance, SAC and YDS, water, permits, and access. A reference encyclopedia, not a turn-by-turn planner.
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 We do not publish a bare “moderate”.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
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
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
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
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
Southern Asia · Nepal
Khumbu
The Everest region — Sherpa villages, Sagarmatha National Park, and the teahouse route to Everest Base Camp.
1 trail
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Northern Europe · Iceland
Landmannalaugar
Hut-to-hut trek across Iceland's southern highlands — rhyolite mountains, obsidian fields, hot springs, and glacial rivers.
1 trail
Australia and New Zealand · New Zealand
Fiordland
Glacier-carved Fiordland — alpine ridgelines, beech forest, and the DOC Great Walks.
1 trail
Eastern Asia · Japan
Kii Peninsula
Forested UNESCO pilgrimage routes of the Kii Mountains to the Kumano grand shrines.
1 trail
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
Northern Europe · Norway
Jotunheimen
Norway's high mountains — Jotunheimen's peaks and the Besseggen ridge above Lake Gjende.
1 trail
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
Australia and New Zealand · New Zealand
Tongariro
New Zealand's oldest national park — active volcanoes, craters, and emerald lakes on the Central Plateau.
1 trail
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
Southern Europe · Italy
Dolomites
The pale peaks of the Dolomites — Alta Via 1 links rifugi from Lago di Braies south to Belluno.
1 trail
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
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
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
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