When a near-fatal accident left former Country Walking editor GUY PROCTER broken, lost and grieving a life he could no longer live, it was walking that led him back to health, purpose, and joy.

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‘Should go far’ was the footnote to an end-of-term school report supposedly handed to my parents in 1967. It’s doubtful, however, that staging marathon trips in someone else’s car was what the teacher

From the Apennine Mountains to ‘the end of the land’ at Cape Finisterre, Louis D Hall and his horse Sasha trekked untrodden partisan paths across four mountain ranges. Guided by strangers and nature’s clues, it was fulfilment of a childhood dream inspired by Don Quixote . Here, the author shares two extracts that give a glimpse into this wilder way of life