Ellie Berry - Walking the Waymarked Trails

Ellie Berry of Tough Soles has set a new record for climbing every mountain in Ireland. This list of mountains, the Vandeleur-Lynams, is an island-wide challenge, taking in all the most prominent mountain ranges and totalling to 275 summits. Ellie’s time from the 1st summit to the 275th summit, was 50 days, 5 hours, and 45 minutes. The previous record was 56 days. Between 2017 - 2019 Ellie and Carl Lange walked every National Waymarked Trail in Ireland, becoming the first people to do so. They walked over 4,000km and documented the project through Tough Soles. She has published academic papers as part of the Made of Walking International Encounters/Conference, researching; photographic representations of the Irish landscape and how that shapes our interactions with it (2019); and a paper that asked questions into how walking art practices could incorporate or consider Leave No Trace within the practice (2021). Instagram @allezberry www.ellieberry.com www.toughsoles.ie