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The route

There is more to the Traumpfad than a north–south traverse of the Alps but the mountains cannot help but dominate the experience.

It takes only two and a half days’ walk alongside the River Isar to get from Munich to the mountains. You are then in the mountains for at least 20 consecutive days (depending on the choices you make about how to stage your journey). When you emerge, you follow the River Piave, over five days of flat walking, to get to Venice.

The Alps are a young and dynamic mountain range sitting right in the middle of Europe. They are the product of Africa’s land mass thrusting northwards. A huge, multi-layered ripple in Europe’s tectonic plate has been driven skywards where, high and exposed, the elements wreak havoc and erosion is rapid, violent and fierce. The youngest, softest layers suffer the most and vast quantities of debris are transported out of the Alps by rivers and glaciers only to be returned as Africa continues to move north. The remnants of these younger layers, carved into mountains, are found on the northern and southern sides of the Alps with the toughest oldest rock revealed in the exposed core in the middle.