Brandon Wilson gives tips an insight into pilgrimages and treks

I had a great talk with Brandon Wilson and got tips an insight into pilgrimages and treks.BRANDON WILSON is a Lowell Thomas Award-winning author/photographer, travel expert and explorer whose inspiring adventures have appeared in books, anthologies, international magazines, newspapers and widely across the Internet.

A voracious explorer of nearly 100 countries, Brandon has hiked over 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles). An expert ultralight trekker, he is especially drawn to the world's great pilgrimage trails, including the Camino de Santiago and Via de la Plata across Spain and Norway's St. Olav’s Way. His fascination with these walks began in 1992 when he and his wife Cheryl became the first Western couple to hike the Buddhist trail from Lhasa, Tibet to Kathmandu, Nepal. He later became the first American to trek the Via Francigena from Canterbury, England to Rome. Then in 2006, he and a French friend re-blazed the 4500-kilometer trail from France to Jerusalem naming it the Templar Trail in their honor.

In 2009, Brandon and Cheryl hiked from Trieste, Italy to Monaco on the Via Alpina and other trails. This 1200-mile, eight-country trekking adventure inspired his last book, Over the Top & Back Again: Hiking X the Alps.

More recently, in 2016, he trekked the Alta Via One across the Dolomites in northern Italy and in 2014, he and Anders Stävhag, on an Explorers Club flag expedition, successfully hiked the historic St. Olav's Trail from Selanger, Sweden to Trondheim, Norway.

Wilson has been named a Fellow of the prestigious Explorers Club. He is also a Knight of Grace in the Sovereign Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, and a graduate of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is a peace and human rights activist.

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