Choose the experience and effort level before selecting a route.
An illustrated collection
Mountains, many ways
From a gentle viewpoint to a serious expedition.
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Rdevany · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized for display.
A different way into the world
Follow the idea.
Find your places.
A mountain experience does not have to mean a summit. Valleys, villages, lakes, forests and carefully chosen viewpoints can reveal the character of a range without reproducing an expedition. The first decision is what you want to experience, not how high you can go.
The places here include very different environments and levels of commitment. A cable car does not remove every risk associated with altitude or weather, and a short walk can still cross exposed ground. Read route-specific information and choose suitable professional support where needed. Build flexibility around the most weather-sensitive day so that one cloudy morning does not define the whole journey.
Use the valleys and settlements to understand the scale.
Protect an alternative day or lower-level activity.
6 · Canada
Banff and Jasper National Parks
Turquoise lakes and great mountain roads through the Canadian Rockies.
Patagonia & Perito Moreno Glacier
Granite peaks, wind-shaped country and the blue edge of an icefield.
Mount Everest
The world's highest summit within a much larger Himalayan landscape.
169 · South Africa & Lesotho
The Drakensberg
An escarpment landscape with a deep record of human presence.
203 · Venezuela, Guyana & Brazil
Mount Roraima
A table mountain whose summit feels like a separate landscape.
242 · Uganda & Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rwenzori Mountains
An equatorial mountain range with extraordinary changes of vegetation.
286 · Pakistan
Hunza Valley
An inhabited mountain valley where forts, fields and peaks belong together.
