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I first learned about the Caminos from my mother-in-law. In 1985 she walked in a group led by a man who had a religious experience at Lourdes which inspired him to walk barefoot from Paris to Santiago. He didn't insist that everyone followed his...
Just a few days ago I read about a man, Petr Hlavacek, who recreated Ötzi the Iceman's shoes and tried them out. A news article says (I added the bolding):
According to Hlavacek, these boots offered more contact with the ground’s surface than...
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