Ethiopia offers a variety of hiking options, from easy half-day rambles to challenging multi-day mountain treks. This is a country where highlands make up a large part of the topography, and in fact most of the north and west of Ethiopia lies at over 1,000 metres above sea level. The average elevation across the territory is 1,330 metres, but the altitude range is immense, with the lowest point the Danakil Depression sitting at 125 metres below sea level and the highest point, the mountain of Ras Dashen, reaching 4,550 metres. One prominent feature of the Ethiopian landscape is the Great Rift Valley, where tectonic plates are pulling apart at a rate of around 5 millimetres per year, creating a valley which is around 50 kilometres wide today.