This must be one of my new favourite reads. I used to do a bit of tramping but I've gotten out of the habit of it the last few years, and having (finally) slogged my way through the near 1000 pages of this book I'm excited to start again. My imagination is fired up and I'm ready to walk!

I think my favourite thing about it is just how very unachievable it all is. If this were 50 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die, or even 100 Walks, there's a chance that I'd first feel challenged, and then burdened, by the genuine possibility of doing them all. Those are achievable numbers - ambitious, but achievable. With 1001, however, there's no chance... and that's an extraordinarily freeing thing. It means I get to pick and choose the tramps that appeal to me most without guilt, so Hell No, Chinese Plank Walk. (Seriously, I feel sick just looking at it.) Luckily, there's literally hundreds of options that are far, far more tempting...