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Peaks of the Balkans experience: what it’s like to hike the remote cross-border trail

We caught up with Rudolf Abraham to hear about his experience hiking the Peaks of the Balkans trail while researching and writing our guidebook. Spanning three countries — Montenegro, Albania,...

16 of the best Mountain Huts in the Alps

By Kev Reynolds Prompted by Kev Reynolds highlighting Bellachat as one of his favourite alpine huts, we have brought together a selection of more great huts and hut experiences in...

Walking in the Bavarian Alps: a complete planning guide

The Bavarian Alps stretch along Germany's southern border with Austria, from the Allgäu in the west to Berchtesgaden in the east — a 300km arc of mountain scenery that offers...

Trekking in Austria's Zillertal Alps: a complete planning guide

Deep in the Austrian Tirol, the Zillertal is a 50km dead-end valley that opens out into one of the Eastern Alps' great hut-to-hut playgrounds, with over a dozen huts strung...

Walking in the Julian Alps of Slovenia: a complete planning guide

Slovenia's Julian Alps are not as high as their western Alpine relations, but they are no less imposing. Limestone peaks plunge into flower meadows, waterfalls cascade from cliffs and then...

Alternative trails for popular hiking routes

Looking for a fresh take on a classic hike? While trails like the Tour du Mont Blanc, West Highland Way, and Camino Portugués are deservedly popular, they’re not the only...

The GR5 Trail – Through the French Alps: a complete planning guide

Trekking across the French Alps between Lake Geneva and Nice sounds daunting even for experienced long-distance walkers. But step back and put it in perspective: well-graded paths, strategic cols between...

An essential guide to planning your first hut-to-hut trip in the Alps

For mountain enthusiasts and multi-day hikers, the allure of the Alps is inevitable, and an alpine trek staying high in mountain huts is an ideal way to explore the region....

The Rhine Cycle Route: ultimate planning guide

The Rhine Cycle Route, passing through six countries, is a delightful journey that takes in stunning scenery, including the castle-studded Rhine gorge and many historic towns and cities. In this...

Italy's Grande Traversata delle Alpi: a complete planning guide

The Grande Traversata delle Alpi (GTA) is one of the great alpine treks: 809km and over 57,000m of ascent and descent, crossing Italy from the Swiss border in the high...

The Grande Traversata delle Alpi: A Trip Report

By John Young Retired lawyer, John Young, has had a lifelong passion for Scottish and Alpine mountaineering in all its forms. Having worked his way through many of the better-known...

An intro to... the Jura Crest Trail

By Ali Rowsell The Jura Crest Trail, one of seven Swiss national long-distance walking trails, delivers one wondrous panorama after another as you ascend, traverse and descend summits and mountain...

The Karnischer Höhenweg – a walk through history

The Karnischer Höhenweg is a 170km waymarked hut-to-hut trek along the border between Italy and Austria. Also known as the Carnic Peace Trail, it runs west to east along the...

In conversation with Rudolf Abraham: Hiking the High Scardus Trail

Rudolf Abraham has been walking the mountains of the Balkans for more than two decades, and his guidebook, Hiking the High Scardus Trail, is the first to cover this remote 314km route through North Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. The trail crosses the vast pastures of the Shar Mountains, climbs Mount Korab, the highest peak in both Albania and North Macedonia, and finishes at the UNESCO-listed Monastery of Saint Naum on the shores of Lake Ohrid. Here, we talk to Rudolf about how the trail came about, what sets it apart from the neighbouring Peaks of the Balkans, and the wildflowers, wildlife and hospitality that make it one of the last places in Europe where you can genuinely feel off the map.

GR5 Vosges and Jura – walking the borderlands of France

By Les Smith and Elizabeth Smith When the time came to update their Cicerone guide, Les and Elizabeth Smith were happy to have an excuse to revisit the Vosges and...

Tour of Monte Rosa experience: tackling the ultimate Alpine trek

We caught up with Maddy Williams to hear about her experience trekking the Tour of Monte Rosa while researching and writing our TMR guidebook. As one of the most spectacular...

Walking the Peaks of the Balkans trail: everything you need to know

The Peaks of the Balkans is a cross-border long-distance trail through Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo's spectacularly wild and rugged borderlands. Whilst the popularity of the route has undoubtedly increased in...

From Ocean to Sea through the Pyrenees: The GR10, GR11 and HRP

By Brian Johnson Crossing the Pyrenees on foot is no mean feat but there are several trails that allow you to do this. Brian Johnson has hiked them all, and...

The Slovene Mountain Trail: a complete planning guide

Slovenia may be one of Europe's smallest countries, but the Slovene Mountain Trail (Slovenska planinska pot, or Transverzala) packs an extraordinary range of landscape into its 550km (342 miles), running from Maribor near the Austrian border all the way to Ankaran on the Adriatic coast. Along the way it crosses the forested Pohorje plateau, the limestone giants of the Kamnik-Savinja and Julian Alps, the flower-strewn ridges of the Karavanke, and the karst hills and olive groves above the sea, all within a country roughly the size of Wales. (Last updated: July 2026 · Guidebook edition: 2nd edition, March 2019, reprinted 2023)

Five of the best long-distance hiking trails in Europe

We sat down with Elmar Teegelbeckers from hiking-trails.com to discuss his practical approach to long-distance hiking and the story behind the website. Elmar explains how his early experiences in the...

Walking in Provence - East: a complete planning guide

Janette Norton's Cicerone guidebook covers 30 walks across three very different landscapes in eastern Provence: the red-rock Estérel coast, the wild Alpes de Haute-Provence, and the high Mercantour, where trails stay under snow until summer. Choosing between them is the real planning challenge, and this guide works through it, covering difficulty, timing, best season, and where to base yourself. Cross into Provence, she writes, and the light sharpens and a certain indolence takes hold. (Last updated: July 2026 · Guidebook edition: First edition, November 2014)

Trekking in the Vanoise – everything you need to know

Trekking in the Vanoise is the perfect way to experience some of the finest walking in the Alps. Nestled between Mont Blanc and the Massif des Écrins, the Vanoise National...

Kev Reynolds: A tribute

By Jonathan Williams Kev Reynolds, one of the country’s leading outdoor writers, died on Friday 10 December 2021, three days after his 78th birthday. Kev Reynolds ‘What does Kev say?’...

Trekking in the Bernese Oberland: a complete planning guide

Stand on the wooden balcony of any mountain inn in the Bernese Oberland on a clear summer morning and you will understand why generations of walkers have made this corner...