Alpe Adria Trail

The Alpe-Adria Trail is an epic long-distance hiking route connecting the foot of Austria's highest peak, the Grossglockner (3,798m), with the Adriatic port of Muggia in Italy. Spanning 43 stages, the trail traverses the Hohe Tauern National Park, the Nock Mountains, the Julian Alps, and the karst plateau of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It is designed as a 'discovery trail', prioritizing dramatic landscape transitions from the glaciated high Alps through the 'Emerald' Soča Valley to the Mediterranean coast. While it skirts technical climbing peaks, the total distance and cumulative elevation changes create a significant endurance demand.

This spectacular 10-mile (16km) section of the South West Coast Path links the sweeping, spectacular surfing sands of Woolacombe with the historic Victorian seaside resort of Ilfracombe. Highlighting the jagged, folded slate cliffs characteristic of North Devon, the route passes the infamous Morte Point (meaning 'Death Point', notorious for shipwrecks), the remote lighthouse atop Bull Point, and the secluded, wooded valley of Lee Bay before an agonizing final climb up the dramatic Torrs to drop into Ilfracombe harbour.