The Great Outdoors

Europe’s best hiking holiday base camps

1. Senja, Norway

orway’s second-largest island is the country in miniature: a fantasy landscape of fjord-filled coastlines and snowy peaks roamed by reindeer and moose. The rugged west coast is hillwalking heaven, with line upon line of ridge-linked mountains rising directly out of the sea. Choose from peak-bagging day-walks (the summits of Segla and Heston are both popular, for good reason) and multi-day expeditions such as the Senja på langs (Sengla north

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