I clawed up the steep mountainside near León, Spain, digging my fingernails into clay to steady my body, pitched forward under my pack. Step, claw. Step, claw. Step. Heavy clouds threatened to ...

(CNN) — The Camino de Santiago is arguably the world’s most famous pilgrimage. At least in terms of ones that must be taken on foot, across hundreds of miles, while carrying your simplified, reduced ...

Swinging his machete, our guide Molinar Toribio is hacking at the branches, palm leaves, and twisted tree trunks that encroach on our barely visible path through the Panamanian jungle. We’re hiking ...

The Way of St. Francis takes hikers 328 miles from Florence to Rome in one of Europe's most unforgettable hikes.

Many guidebooks for a 1,000-year-old pilgrimage in Spain, known as the Camino de Santiago, spell out the “correct” ways to hike or bike the Camino’s stone and dirt paths. And pilgrims, or pelegrinos, ...

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A pilgrim seeking peace and purpose on Spain’s famed Camino de Santiago finds much more Like 186,198 other pilgrims walking the French Way that year, I carried a pilgrim’s passport. It became my most ...