Cerro de las tres Cruces
Cali, Colombia
3/5Altitude1,456 mHiking time2 hBest seasonYear roundPermitNot needed
Easy
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A list of accessible mountain summits and uplifting trails for everyday hikers that like nature and community.
- No Everest
- No selfie race
- Leave no trace
The Friendly Peaks Selection
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Featured peaks · 25 in total
3/5Monserrate
Bogota, Colombia
4/5Altitude3,152 mHiking time1 hBest seasonYear roundPermitNot needed
Medium
Full pageMount Kinabalu
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
2/5Altitude4,095 mHiking time15 hBest seasonMar–SepPermitNeeded ($$)
Medium difficult
Full pageVolcan Baru
Boquete, Panama
4/5Altitude3,475 mHiking time8 hBest seasonJan–MarPermitNeeded
Medium difficult
Full pageWest Peak of Bogd Khan
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
4/5Altitude2,250 mHiking time3 hBest seasonJun–AugPermitNot needed
Easy
Full pageXiangshan
Taipei, Taiwan
4/5Altitude183 mHiking time2 hBest seasonOctoberPermitNot needed
Very easy
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Hike together, not alone
Group hikes, trail clean-ups and meetups run by the community. Everyone walks at the pace of the slowest person. Free to join.
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Friendly Peaks Philosophy
We live in weird times...
Climbing mountains seems to happen first and foremost for the selfie opportunities. We go on ever more extreme hikes. Driven by the need arising from constant comparison to others. Sometimes, this means we waste time and precious moments. But often enough, the consequences can be more dire. Not everybody makes it. People die. On mountains. In vain. For selfies and awards. And we leave mountains destroyed and littered with plastic bottles.
Here at Friendly Peaks, we have a different philosophy. We want affordable and accessible hiking trails and mountain summits. We enjoy the hike in itself and the community with other hikers. We admire nature in its different forms. And we want to keep the mountains clean instead of adding to pollution.
In other words, you won't find Mount Everest on this list, but you will find some beautiful hiking routes!
Friendly Peaks Rules
- We keep each other safe!
- We reach out and rescue people, we do not step over dead bodies on the way to a peak.
- We pick up garbage in the mountains and do not leave a trace.
- We love the challenge and change of nature.
- We win as a team not individually!
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