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John D.  Burns

“There is something unique about taking a linear multi-day journey on foot. The day walker starts and finishes at the same spot – after his walk’s end he will return to the familiar, to his routine, to a place where nothing has changed. If you take a longer journey – let’s call it a trek – your home comes with you on your back, every day’s end is different, and every morning you wake up somewhere else. The routine you follow is decided in a dialogue between you and the land you walk through. The trekker is constantly asking questions. How long will it take to get to the next shelter? Can I make it to that village? Will I run out of food? The answers to those questions decide where the trekker sleeps, the view he sees when he wakes in the morning, what challenges the coming day will bring.”

John D. Burns, The Last Hillwalker: A sideways look at forty years in Britain's Mountains
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The Last Hillwalker: A sideways look at forty years in Britain's Mountains The Last Hillwalker: A sideways look at forty years in Britain's Mountains by John D. Burns
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