Guided Hiking Tours and Hiking Trips Around the World

The world’s best guided hiking tours: From Alaska and Bhutan to Yosemite and the Yukon

Hiking is often defined as “the sport of walking outdoors.” Sounds pretty straightforward. But although the “walking outdoors” part seems universally accepted, it’s the “sport” segment where some would take exception.

If you should have any doubts that hiking is a sport, just check in with one of our Adventure Collection companies. They seem to have no qualms about describing hiking as a sport — and proving it on their tours. They make a strong argument; after all, hiking is the basic building block for many other sports.

For example, hiking constitutes a large part of mountain climbing. Experienced mountaineers know that they must train themselves for long, arduous hiking trips over lower trails and across glaciers and snowfields to get to the peaks. Go on one of Adventure Collection’s hiking adventures to Antarctica, Machu Picchu, or the “Sacred Summits” of Bhutan, and you’ll know what being versed in the sport of hiking means.

Backpack camping, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing are other sports built upon a hiking foundation. Choose from Adventure Collection hiking tours in the Rocky Mountains, for instance, and you’ll backpack into the wild, Salmon River backcountry, near the Idaho-Montana border. It will be hard to deny that you aren’t a sportsman after crossing rivers, fly-fishing, rock climbing, and sleeping under the stars. You’ll have an added opportunity to test your athletic prowess with some white-water rafting. Hiking trips provide the backbone for other activities, such as bird-watching in Brazil or wildlife viewing by foot-safari in Africa.

Is hiking a real sport? Some would say not. You might distinguish the two by saying that sports take place on fields and courts made by humans, while hiking is something you do “way out there,” in nature.

As for Adventure Collection members and travelers, however, we wouldn’t want our sports any other way.

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