Sitting on the cold ground outside a church, I felt the world spinning out of control. My body and mind had reached their ...

If your pack is heaviest anywhere above your collar ... I bought myself a scallop shell — the symbol of the Camino de Santiago — and two embroidered Camino patches for our backpacks as well ...

Have you ever thought about walking the Camino de Santiago, but don’t know where to start or if the famous pilgrimage is even ...

This scene repeated—sans cheerleader—day after day as Amy and I made our way across the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage trail in northern Spain. The Camino is renowned for tearing up ...

This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. During the summers of 2012 and 2013, I walked more than a thousand miles on the Camino de Santiago. Also called the Way of ...

Like the Camino, packing light is key. The highest (and most dreaded ... Taking what I learned on the Camino de Santiago to the Inca Trail, I knew I wanted to repeat outfits as much as possible and ...