Publisher's Synopsis
In this book ten travellers depict treks of varying length and difficulty in nearly every continent of the world, from mountain to jungle, desert to glacier and seaboard to seaboard. Each records an adventure and describes the excitment, challenge and satisfaction of trekking.;It is hoped that this book will excite the imagination of the armchair traveller and will stir the ambitious to try the experience of trekking for themselves. With colour photographs, specially prepared maps and factual information, it could be used as the starting point for planning journeys to some of the wild and lonely places of the world.
