In May 2022, at the age of 55, Kiwi journalist Claire McCall and her partner James set off to attempt four stages of the Hexatrek, a new 3034km high-level hike in France. In this excerpt from ‘Hiking the Hexa’, Claire ponders whether she’s cut out to be a mountain woman…
are no flat sections in the Alps. Well, that’s what it feels like. You’d think this might have occurred to me before I signed up to this challenge. It sounds naive — and it is. James, to his credit, did try to warn me when I first mentioned crossing the Vosges and the Alps as an alternative to tackling the Pacific Crest Trail in the
