The author and three hiking companions trek the Markha Valley in the Hemis National Park, south of the Indus Valley, between the Stok Range and Zanskar in India’s Kashmir.

130-million-year-old Mount Mulanje in Malawi is the highest mountain in south-central Africa. Trekking Mulanje is a mystical experience as well as being some of the best granite climbing you could hope to find.

A South African guide in Africa’s game parks adds serious mountaineering to his professional experiences by becoming a paying customer to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest free-standing mountain in the world.

Trekking in the hills and mountains of Thailand you will find at least ten different ethnic groups still observing animistic religions and sometimes bizarre rituals and practices. They have been little affected by the flood of tourism to Thailand.