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In summer 2021 Richard Hartfield completed a two-month journey east-to-west along the length of the Alps, from Slovenia to the Mediterranean coast of France, a backpacking, bivvying and mountaineering epic of roughly 1900km. Here he looks back on the highs and lows of a life-defining experience.
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