ABISKO, Sweden – A multi-day hike above the Arctic Circle is no place for an iPhone to die. “There goes my camera,” I thought, and yet the loss was freeing. I was out of Internet and mobile phone ...

Metro’s Lara Dunn takes the road less travelled along the Kungsleden, a 440-km long hiking trail through one of Europe’s largest wilderness areas. Hiking the Kungsleden Trail can be a rejuvenating ...

ABISKO, Sweden — Few people outside Nordic countries know about the Kungsleden, the most famous trail in Sweden. But National Geographic calls it one of the world’s greatest hikes. Northern lights?

Moss-green plains, crystal-clear streams, grazing reindeer: This is the Kungsleden, or King’s Trail, which seems to fulfil every cliche about Sweden. Divided between a southern and northern part, ...

The seemingly endless drizzle continues. I’m sitting in a valley in the shadow of the mighty Kebnekaise mountain in Lapland, somewhere (I’m not entirely sure where) along the Kungsleden Trail. My feet ...

When to Go: The Europeans do it in August, when they get holiday time, so be bold and go in early September for authentic solitude and no bugs. A hundred miles inside the Arctic Circle, Sweden’s ...