Jakob Burckhardt, in The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (in German in 1860) declared Petrarch "a truly modern man", because of the significance of nature for his "receptive spirit" even if he did not yet have the skill to describe nature.
However, some have suggested that Petrarch's climb was fictional. The exploit is described in a celebrated letter addressed to his friend and confessor, the monk Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, composed some time after the fact. Petrarch recounts that on April 26, 1336, with his brother and two servants, he climbed to the top of Mont Ventoux (1,912 meters (6,273 ft), a feat which he undertook for recreation rather than necessity. The poet Petrarch is frequently mentioned as an early example of someone hiking. In North America, multi-day hikes, usually with camping, are referred to as backpacking. Hiking a long-distance trail from end-to-end is also referred to as trekking and as thru-hiking in some places.
Trekking is the preferred word used to describe multi-day hiking in the mountainous regions of India, Pakistan, Nepal, North America, South America, Iran, and the highlands of East Africa.
Common terms for hiking used by New Zealanders are tramping (particularly for overnight and longer trips), walking or bushwalking. The Australian term bushwalking refers to both on and off-trail hiking. In extreme cases of bushwhacking, where the vegetation is so dense that human passage is impeded, a machete is used to clear a pathway. This specifically refers to difficult walking through dense forest, undergrowth, or bushes where forward progress requires pushing vegetation aside. Hiking sometimes involves bushwhacking and is sometimes referred to as such. In Northern England, Including the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, fellwalking describes hill or mountain walks, as fell is the common word for both features there. However, in the United Kingdom, the word walking is also used, as well as rambling, while walking in mountainous areas is called hillwalking. A day hike refers to a hike that can be completed in a single day. In the United States, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom, hiking means walking outdoors on a trail, or off trail, for recreational purposes. The Karhunkierros ("Bear's Round"), an 80 km (50 mi) long hiking trail through the Oulanka National Park in Kuusamo, Finland It is a popular activity with numerous hiking organizations worldwide, and studies suggest that all forms of walking have health benefits. In New Zealand a long, vigorous walk or hike is called tramping. The term bushwalking is endemic to Australia, having been adopted by the Sydney Bush Walkers club in 1927. The word hiking is also often used in the UK, along with rambling (a slightly old-fashioned term), hillwalking, and fell walking (a term mostly used for hillwalking in northern England). In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, the word "walking" describes all forms of walking, whether it is a walk in the park or backpacking in the Alps. "Hiking" is the preferred term in Canada and the United States the term " walking" is used in these regions for shorter, particularly urban walks. Religious pilgrimages have existed much longer but they involve walking long distances for a spiritual purpose associated with specific religions. Walking for pleasure developed in Europe during the eighteenth century. Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.
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