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Book Review: The Earth Beneath My Feet

British hiker Andrew Terrill's near-fatal fall in the Alps leads him to dream up a 7,000-mile walk from the very toe of Italy to the far north of Norway.

Ash Routen

Many of us gaze out longingly from our office windows and dream of a more adventurous life, to live with more freedom and variety.

But for the odd exception, there are very few who end up going after these fleeting daydreams. Instead, we usually make do with burning a week or two of allocated vacation to hike part of a long-distance trail, or clip bolts on a sun-drenched coastline.

British hiker Andrew Terrill, and author of a new book The Earth Beneath My Feet, is one of those exceptions.

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