trekker
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trekkers
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One trekker, who had visited the Himalayas more than a dozen times, told the BBC he had "never experienced weather like this".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
Spanish diplomats are in touch with Iranian authorities about 41-year-old trekker Santiago Sanchez, according to the foreign ministry.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 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
Paul S. Auerbach was an adventurer — a deep-sea diver, a trekker and, in his vocation as a physician, a doctor who instinctively ran toward the scene of disaster.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2021
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
Several trekkers and their guides say their journeys back down the mountains have been treacherous, taking up to three or four days and requiring them to pass collapsed roads and swept-away bridges.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
A representative of the local trekking authority, the Annapurna Conservation Area Project, said some 700 trekkers were still waiting in Pokhara to embark on the Annapurna Circuit.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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
Ziemer emphasized that this alarming death rate hadn’t been skewed upward by mountaineering accidents; the victims had been “just ordinary trekkers who never ventured beyond the established trails.”
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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