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Here's your ultimate guide for gearing up for your Gran Paradiso Trek, where we're about to embark on an epic adventure through one of the Alps' best-kept secrets: Gran Paradiso National Park. We'll see rugged landscapes, high passes, lush meadows, and glacial trails all leading to the summit of Mt. Gran Paradiso, Italy's highest peak nestled entirely within its borders. ...

Whether you’re thinking of booking a trip or you already have your trek dates locked in - flights are bound to have crossed your mind. International flights aren’t currently included in our trips & tour prices (though watch this space - the future may well see us grow wings!). However, we have a lot of information to make sure that booking your flights is as stress-free as possible. H...

What's the best down jacket for an Everest Base Camp trek? Anytime I’m out wandering around a village at high altitude in the Himalayas, my down jacket comes with me especially when that sun drops over the horizon and the mercury drops below Zero. It's an important bit of kit as you need to be regulating your core temperature and making yourself as comfortable as poss...

So you're heading to K2 Base Camp, Awesome! The trek to K2 base camp is a true adventure that offers breath-taking views of some of the world's highest peaks, including K2, the second highest mountain in the world! But before any of that we have some admin to do. ...