Atlas & Boots is an outdoor travel blog read by over 250,000 people a month. If you’re a first-time visitor, this is a good place to start. Below, you will find our ‘best of’ collections: curated lists of our most popular content from the last six years.

You can also learn more about us, meet the founders (novelist Kia Abdullah and photographer Peter Watson), find out how it all started with our first journey in 2014 and see who we’ve worked with on our press page.

Latest Posts

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12 best hikes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park

10 things park rangers wish you knew

International borders: 10 remarkable frontiers

Star struck: exploring the world’s Dark Sky Reserves

Epic treks

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K2 base camp trek: a walk among giants in the Karakoram

Trekking the Arctic Circle Trail: a dream goes up in smoke

Everest base camp trek: to the heart of the high Himalayas

Simien Mountains National Park: trekking Africa’s Grand Canyon

Day hikes

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Hiking Sørvágsvatn Lake, Faroe Islands

Climbing Carrauntoohil: Ireland’s highest mountain

Climbing Adam’s Peak: all 5,500 steps of it!

Leap of faith: hiking to the vertiginous Tigray churches

Debate

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Does the outdoors really have a diversity problem?

Polar bear death: has extinction tourism gone too far?

It’s sexist to assume I’m not adventurous

Are you an outdoors snob?

wildlife

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Phillip Island Penguin Parade: the day we saw 613 penguins

Safari in Etosha National Park: where the wildlife comes to you

Elephant safari at Udawalawe National Park

In search of puffins in Mykines, Faroe Islands

Exploration junkies

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10 epic journeys of discovery

12 maps that changed our world view

12 of Earth’s most remote places and communities

30 most beautiful mountains in the world

Seven summits

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How much does it cost to climb the seven summits?

Climbing Aconcagua: my third seven summit

Climbing Mount Elbrus: my second seven summit

Climbing the seven summits: a route to the top

Environment

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Why Greta Thunberg makes us so uncomfortable

Is it time for tourism caps?

The world is not getting better

What is the greenest country in the world?

Diving & Snorkelling

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Swimming with whale sharks in Djibouti

Diving the Sonesta plane wrecks in Aruba

Swimming with humpback whales in Tonga

Diving Steve’s Bommie in the Great Barrier Reef

Great reads

Read Kia’s novel

Best mountaineering books: 25 great reads

Best sailing books: 25 tales inspired by the sea

22 books about obsessive searches

Best books about survival: 25 true life tales

Movies

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Best mountaineering movies: 25 must-see cliffhangers

Sherpa film review: has it put me off climbing Everest?

Sailing movies: 25 of the best nautical films

Scuba diving movies: 21 of the best underwater flicks

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