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Robert Paul Stone (born March 10, 1951) is the author, photographer, and publisher of the trail guide series Day Hike Books. Since 1991, Stone has hiked every trail in the Day Hike Book series, covering thousands of miles of trails throughout the western United States and Hawaii.
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A simple dry magnetic pocket compass. The Ten Essentials are survival items that hiking and Scouting organizations recommend for safe travel in the backcountry. [1] [2]The Ten Essentials first appeared in print in the third edition of Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (January 1974). [3]
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Despite this, he managed to summit Mount Everest in 1993 and again in 1996. He has also completed the Seven Summits (highest mountains on each of the seven continents). Groom acted as a guide for Adventure Consultants during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster , which he survived and subsequently described in his 1997 autobiography. [ 4 ]
Henry David Thoreau and several other early outdoor authors were some of the first individuals to publish examples of items to carry while hiking. [citation needed] The Mountaineers of Seattle later developed the “10 Essentials” while teaching climbing courses in the 1930s, which eventually appeared in Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills.
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [41] An early example is Thomas West's guide to the English Lake District, published in 1778. [42] Thomas West, an English priest, popularized the idea of walking for pleasure in his guide to the Lake District of 1778. In the ...
Jardine claimed his first Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike was with a base weight of 5.7 kg (13 lb), and by his third PCT thru-hike it was below 4.5 kg (9.9 lb). [ 4 ] Before modern equipment made it possible for ultralight hikers to buy most of their light-weight gear, there were hikers who adhered to an "ultralight" mentality.