Routes tagged
Glaciers
14 routes
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Photo: Kristoferb · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek FranceChamonix, the Mer de Glace and the Grand Balcon Nord
A day combining a rack railway, France's largest glacier and its ice cave, a high balcony path under the Chamonix aiguilles, and the cable car to the Aiguille du Midi.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Rdevany · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek NepalEverest Base Camp Trek: The 8-Day Highlights
An accelerated highlights version of the classic trek through the Khumbu — from the airstrip at Lukla up the Sherpa valleys to the foot of the world's highest mountain at 5,364 m.
- Duration
- 8 days
- Distance
- 110 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Sergey Pesterev · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek TanzaniaKilimanjaro: The Machame Route to Uhuru Peak
Six days from rainforest to glaciers on the 'Whiskey Route', the most scenic way up Kilimanjaro, camping from gate to gate and topping out at Uhuru Peak (5,895 m), the roof of Africa.
- Duration
- 6 days
- Distance
- 62 km
- Difficulty
- Expert
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Photo: Lionel Terray · CC0Trek ArgentinaLaguna de los Tres — the Fitz Roy Viewpoint
Patagonia's most famous day hike: about 20 km out and back from El Chaltén, ending with a savage 400-metre climb to a glacial lagoon directly beneath the granite spire of Fitz Roy.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 20 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: SimonKing74 · CC0Trek MoroccoMount Toubkal — North Africa's Highest Summit
Two days from a Berber village to the roof of North Africa at 4,167 m — mule tracks, a blue-painted shrine, a mountain refuge, and a long scree climb to a summit that sees the Sahara.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 30 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Andreas Tille · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IcelandThe Laugavegur Trail — Landmannalaugar to Þórsmörk
Four days across Iceland's southern highlands, from the rhyolite mountains and hot springs of Landmannalaugar over an obsidian plateau and black-sand deserts to the birch woods of Þórsmörk.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 55 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Stevage · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek PeruThe Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu
Five days around a 6,271 m ice giant — a glacial pass at about 4,630 m, a turquoise lake, and a long drop into cloud forest, all the way to Machu Picchu without a permit lottery.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Distance
- 74 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Eusebius · CC BY 3.0Trek New ZealandThe Tongariro Alpine Crossing
A single spectacular day across an active volcanic landscape — steaming craters, red cinder ridges and the vivid Emerald Lakes — often called New Zealand's finest day walk.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 19.4 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Karen Chan 16 · CC BY 2.0Trek ChileThe W Trek, Torres del Paine
Four days tracing a giant 'W' through Patagonia's most famous park — the granite towers at dawn, the hanging glaciers of the French Valley, and the blue wall of Grey Glacier.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 75 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek AustriaHallstatt & the Dachstein — Lake, Salt Mine and Ice Cave
Two unhurried days in the Salzkammergut: a lakeside village wedged between cliff and water, the oldest salt mine in the world above it, and an ice cave and clifftop platform in the Dachstein across the lake.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek USANavajo Loop & Queen's Garden — The Bryce Amphitheater Circuit
The classic half-day combination: drop off the rim at Sunset Point through the Wall Street switchbacks, cross the hoodoo floor of the Bryce Amphitheater, and climb back out through Queen's Garden to Sunrise Point.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Doug Sim · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek United KingdomScafell Pike from Wasdale Head
The shortest way up England's highest mountain (978 m) — about 900 m of climbing from Wasdale through Lingmell Gill and Hollow Stones onto a summit that is a bare field of boulders.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9.6 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Jeremy Thompson · CC BY 2.0Attraction USASeaWorld Orlando: The Coaster Park That Keeps Whales
One day at Orlando's quiet thrill capital — Mako, Kraken and Manta before the queues build, marine habitats through the midday heat, Sesame Street for the kids, and orcas at the stadiums to finish.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek United KingdomYr Wyddfa (Snowdon) by the Llanberis Path
The longest and most gradual way up the highest mountain in Wales — about 6.8 km of steady climbing beside the mountain railway, past the cliffs of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu to the summit at 1,085 m.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 14 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate