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trekker

[trek-er] / ˈtrɛk ər /


NOUN
walker
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One trekker, who had visited the Himalayas more than a dozen times, told the BBC he had "never experienced weather like this".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

The Malaysian trekker has been missing since 2015, he said, and the tourist police is still searching for them at “the family’s request.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023

Spanish diplomats are in touch with Iranian authorities about 41-year-old trekker Santiago Sanchez, according to the foreign ministry.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

In August 2016, an experienced American trekker named Justin Alexander Shetler ascended to a high Himalayan lake on a pilgrimage in the Parvati Valley of northern India, never to be heard from again.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022

He was in truth a "trekker" rather than a nomad, and he possessed the invaluable military attributes of the man unchained by cities and accustomed to wander far in a hard and bracing country.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

Hundreds of trekkers on the Annapurna Circuit - crucial to Nepal's economy - have had to cut short their hikes to get to safety.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

In an area home to vast energy infrastructure projects, Nepal's disaster authority added 933 hydropower workers to a missing persons list already including trekkers and pilgrims to Tibet's sacred Mount Kailash.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

More than 1,400 people are missing, including trekkers in the Himalayas and scores of Hindu pilgrims to Tibet's sacred snow-capped Mount Kailash.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Spring is peak visitor season here, with trekkers, tourists and climbers all arriving in the area.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

Prior to the clinic’s existence, acute altitude illness killed approximately one or two out of every 500 trekkers who passed through Pheriche.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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