After completing the Great Himalaya Trail across Nepal there is another part of the adventure that is ongoing. And this blog, to be honest, an accountability post!
Over the past three months I’ve been turning the experience into three separate…
The Via Alpina Red runs through Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, France, and finishes near Monaco. When I lay it out like that for friends and family, it sounds like we’re ticking off countries.
In reality, it’s more like…
Discover the Walls of Jerusalem loop in Tasmania, including Wild Dog Creek, Dixon’s Kingdom, and the quieter Lake Adelaide campsite, with stunning alpine views, pencil pines, and wildlife encounters.
As we trekked and climbed along the Great Himalaya Trail I started to keep notes about what our bodies were up to.
The first foray into overnight hiking after completing the Great Himalaya Trail was reconnecting with the Australian landscape. Together with my sister Mel, who has done the full Heysen Trail twice (nuts!) and completed the Larapinta Trail this year, Mike…
We have been added to the official list of Great Himalaya Trail finishers here: https://www.himalayanadventurelabs.com/great-himalaya-trail/ght-hiker-database/
Also check out our blog on the official GHT website: https://www.greathimalayatrail.com/april-to-august-on-the-ght/
Thanks to Robin Boustead, the visionary of the trail, for inviting us to share…
Staying five days on Koh Phangan. Snorkelling, marine park, scooters, sticky rice, relaxing, and what it was like in October, the off season.
Is it 5 days when you arrive in the afternoon and leave late at night? Probably not. So let’s call this what it really was: four brilliantly packed days in Siem Reap involving sunrise missions, war history, red and white…
We finished in Hilsa on the western border on 25 August 2025. More to come after some good rest and showers and wearing some different clothes after 125 days with the same shirts!
Some initial stats: elevation gain 95600m, distance…
Here we were, on the final stretch of the Great Himalaya Trail. Gamghadi to Hilsa via Simikot. It felt like we were so close, but it still took ten days. If you say, "I'm going on a ten day hiking…