Affiliate disclosure

Treks and Trails is free to read. To pay for it, some links on the site are affiliate links: if you buy or book through them, the shop or booking site pays us a small commission. It costs you nothing extra.

Which links

• Trekking gear (for example, online stores selling boots, jackets and backpacks).
• Stays near trailheads (hotel and homestay booking sites).
• Travel insurance.

Stay links are labelled "Affiliate link" next to them, gear picks are marked "Ad · affiliate link", and every packing checklist and gear section carries this disclosure below its shop buttons.

Amazon Associates

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

The gear buttons on trek pages and on the gear guide open a search on Decathlon, Amazon or Flipkart for a general item (for example "trekking pole"). We do not pick a particular product, and we do not show prices, ratings or rankings. Photos on gear cards show the kind of item, not a product sold through the link.

What doesn't change

Affiliate partners have no say in which treks we cover or what we write about them. Trek facts come from our sources, not from partners.