trekker
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Still, one trekker, who had hiked up these mountains more than a dozen times, told the BBC he had "never experienced weather like this".
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
The Malaysian trekker has been missing since 2015, he said, and the tourist police is still searching for them at “the family’s request.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
Training for Everest Base Camp will look different for every trekker, but the goal is to build cardiovascular endurance to prepare for 8 to 12 miles of trekking each day.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
In August 2016, an experienced American trekker named Justin Alexander Shetler ascended to a high Himalayan lake on a pilgrimage in the Parvati Valley of northern India, never to be heard from again.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
He was in truth a "trekker" rather than a nomad, and he possessed the invaluable military attributes of the man unchained by cities and accustomed to wander far in a hard and bracing country.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
While the region has always drawn tourists, trekkers and researchers given its scenic landscape and biodiversity, rapid infrastructure expansion in the past decade has made more places accessible, increasing footfall and disrupting the wildlife.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
But now operators say many trekkers have been using these abandoned paths to return, as the main roads have been washed away in some sections of the circuit.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The BBC spoke to two trekkers who spotted the climbers scaling Broad Peak.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
More than 1,400 people are missing, including trekkers in the Himalayas and scores of Hindu pilgrims to Tibet's sacred snow-capped Mount Kailash.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
A small, graceful Sherpani, she was in the midst of taking an order from a group of American trekkers.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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