There are others who want to hike it up back to 2001.

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From the arrival platform at roughly 4, 000 metres it takes a couple of hours to hike up to the Pichincha's summit, Rucu ("old person" in the local Quechua language) just below 4, 700 metres.

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Climbing the six Abels in the brutal Western Arthurs Range, located inside the World Heritage-listed Tasmanian Wilderness Area that covers 20% of the island, necessitates a walk through such difficult mountain terrain that it can take walkers up to two weeks to hike what is often described as the most difficult bushwalk in Australia.

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While the company is spending some of its cash on a special payout and speeding up its annual dividend payment, it still expects to hike quarterly payouts by a nickel per share, or 20%, in 2013.

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Together we left for parts unknown (to both of us, as it turned out), taking a minimally marked, extremely difficult hike that brought us up through deciduous to coniferous forest and back again in about six hours.

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