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Europe’s wildest pilgrimage route: a trek through the mountains of north-west Sweden

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Europe’s wildest pilgrimage route: a trek through the mountains of north-west Sweden
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A remote 18th-century chapel deep in Sami lands is the goal of the Präststigen, a 37-mile trail that traverses some of the country’s most spectacular sceneryI wasn’t exactly in “Sunday best”, but I had made some effort. Well, I’d changed my underwear for the first time in a couple of days and given myself a baby-wipe bath. Still, as we filed into the chapel at Alkavare, I felt more a member of an expedition than a congregation. We sat on the low wooden benches, waterproof jackets rustling and le

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