THE SOLO TRAVELLER
Your world. Your way.
Hiking and Trekking
Hiking and trekking slow the world to walking pace. For solo travellers, these journeys are not about conquest or kilometres, but about attentiveness to landscapes, rhythms, and to the quiet recalibration that happens when each step is your own. Whether following ancient paths or modern trails, moving on foot invites a deeper, more deliberate way of meeting a place.
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FEATURE SERIES
Curated multi-part features and conversations
Our ‘Confidence and Safety’ series examines the realities of hiking and trekking safely as a solo traveller, from preparation and planning to awareness, judgement, and decision making on the trail.
A Confidence and Safety Series
Photographer: Alberto Menendez | iStock.
After the catastrophic Rasuwa flood, Nepal is calling trekkers back. But what does that actually look like when some trekking regions were untouched while roads, bridges and access routes elsewhere were destroyed?
By Geoffrey Williams, with contributions from RajBala Treks and Expeditions in Kathmandu | 5 October 2026
At more than 75 years of age, Peggy travelled from Australia to walk the Camino Francés. In this conversation, she reflects on the pilgrimage, the people she met, the memories it stirred and what the journey came to mean.
