trek
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One sweltering July morning, two friends and I made the trek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Dykes was joined on his trek by local guide Obed Temba Tuyumvire as well as videographer Will Perez, who has been helping chart the journey with regular social media posts.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Wilson pushed employees to complete the Grouse Grind, a 1.8-mile trek up Grouse Mountain near the company’s Vancouver headquarters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
But 583 foreigners remain unaccounted for, many of them pilgrims who had spent months preparing for the demanding trek around Mount Kailash.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
He writes to her, and his letter makes the long trek across America.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Our Year of the Pilgrimage, we agreed, wasn’t just for epic treks but also because, in retirement, our trips increasingly felt like pilgrimages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
This mission is a test flight designed to inform future treks, such as Artemis IV, a moon landing currently slated for 2028.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2026
They bought a house in El Valle de Anton, a beautiful town known for exotic wildlife, breathtaking treks, and fresh mountain air.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
The shoot involved long treks up a mountain each day, unpredictable weather, veteran actors, heavy equipment and frequent rushes to beat the rain and descending clouds.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
They made crisp, mesmerized treks from base to base where the men perfected the martial arts and where families settled into counterfeit security for a year or two.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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In 30C heat, I am finding it hard to keep up, with Karl showing no sign of fatigue, despite having trekked 10 miles before lunch.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
But the whole experience has made me wary enough that now, whether I’ve trekked through nature or the concrete jungle, a quick tick check is a part of my nighttime routine.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Michele described carrying a binder with hundreds of pages of medical records and creating spreadsheets to track symptoms as they trekked from hospital to hospital, doctor to doctor, to get treatment for Aidan.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
We trekked to City of Industry to see if it delivers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Farmers trekked into town with their children and wives streaming around them.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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While road damage in Manang has been serious, with several bridges swept away and communications down in some areas, no one had been killed in the trekking region, chief district officer Mukti Prasad Khanal said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Hiroshi Ota, a former missile-unit commander who now leads trekking tours on Amami-Oshima, wishes people in Japan would be more aware of the security risks the country faces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
They include tourists who had come for trekking in the Himalayas, as well as Hindu pilgrims seeking spiritual peace at Tibet's sacred Mount Kailash.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
At least four hikers died in June while trekking through the Grand Canyon, state authorities reported in Arizona.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ang Dorje became an able student and achieved the equivalent of an eighth-grade education before quitting to go back to work in the mountaineering and trekking industry.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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