StopNot Adventure & Expeditions

Virtually no one went hiking before the 19th century. What occurred that inspired ordinary people to take a walk in the woods for pleasure?

While there are enough books about mountaineering to fill a small library, very little has been written on the rich and fascinating history of hiking. Ramble On: A History of Hiking is the first book to explore how hiking evolved into one of the world's most popular outdoor recreational activities.

Extensively researched, Jeff Doran provides a broad overview of the origins of hiking, as well as the cultural trends, movements, events, and innovations that spurred its growth and allowed it to eventually flourish.

"Ramble On: A History of Hiking" is now available as an eBook on Amazon Kindle: https://lnkd.in/erKVDE8X

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The mountains have a way of whispering wisdom – a silent meditation in nature’s embrace...

“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

Reinhold Messner, All Fourteen 8,000ers, 1999.

Wikipedia says this about Messner: He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest and, along with Peter Habeler, the first ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen. He was the first person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, doing so without supplementary oxygen. Messner was the first to cross Antarctica and Greenland with neither snowmobiles nor dog sleds and also crossed the Gobi Desert alone. He is widely considered as the greatest mountaineer of all time.