Ragged land

In the Canadian Rockies, a cowgirl-powered ranch takes riders into the heart of Banff National Park, retracing a tangle of backcountry trails first roamed by Indigenous guides and early pioneers

Walk Patagonia’s premier national parks in Chile and Argentina, including Cerro Torre and Fitz Roy areas, with expert advice from Cicerone’s Rudolf Abraham .

THE LAKE DISTRICT is now home to England’s highest nature reserve. Up on the Back o’ Skiddaw, a new project seeks to revive the nature of this rough and remote land.

GREAT BRITAIN HAS A WIDE AND WONDERFUL SELECTION OF LONG-DISTANCE WALKS — FROM WELSH SEASIDE PATHS THAT CIRCUMNAVIGATE ENTIRE ISLANDS TO CROSS-COUNTRY HIKES THAT REVEAL LOCAL HISTORY AT EVERY STEP.

If you want to climb a mountain, it’ll be tough, right? And there’s no point staying low in the valleys if you’re after a big adventure, right? Actually, wrong on both counts. CW sets out to show that at both high level and low, the Lake District has the power to surprise.

The remote and formidable ice desert of Kalaallit Nunaat is one of the wildest places on earth to run. JACQUES MARAIS and his son, ROBERT , ventured to Greenland’s desolate eastern coastline to scout new trail running routes at the very edge of the world