Backpackers with a missionThree friends who travelled thousands of miles across the American Hiking trails cleaning up trash that they found along the way have been inspiring people all over the world with their story. Follow their progress of Packing It Out at packingitout.blogspot.co.uk

A new campground in Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park Western AustraliaLeeuwin-Naturaliste NP will have a new campsite completed by mid-2017. It will deliver 45 individual camp sites and two group camping areas. The Cape to Cape Walk goes through this area which will offer bushwalkers a perfect place to stay overnigh.

Mount Everest rock face collapsesAccording to mountaineers the Hillary Step, a near-vertical rock face near the summit of Mount Everest named after Sir Edmund Hillary, has collapsed supposedly because of the damage caused by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake which struck in Nepal in 2015.

A 137-mile-long Sinai Trail in EgyptIt’s neither the longest or the hardest of the world’s long-distance routes but hiking a landscape steeped in history, guided by Bedouin whose lives are intertwined with the land, is definitely one of the most rewarding.

Sky-walk above the Mount Buffalo Gorge, VictoriaThe proposed sky-walk would be similar to the Grand Canyon Skywalk in the United States.

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