The desire to travel far and wide is strong for Ed Langdon, with the midfielder taking his travels 5895 metres above sea level in his latest off-season adventure to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Langdon took the hike with brother Tom, who plays for Collingwood. 

As reported by Tom Wildie on the ABC website, Ed suffered from headaches and vomiting in temperatures that dropped to -20 degrees Celsius during the gruelling climb.

"It's a bit of cliche that travelling gets you out of your comfort zone, but it really does," Langdon told the ABC. 

"To be honest, if I knew how hard it was, I'm sure I would have reconsidered doing it.

"It was probably one of the toughest things I've ever done.

"When I was at the top, I literally had nothing to give, and I thought, 'jeez, footy is really not that hard as climbing this mountain'."

Langdon, who also travelled to South America with Connor Blakely as a part of his off-season travels, said that he enjoyed getting away to escape the AFL bubble.

"Some of the more third world countries, you see just how they live life and how happy they are, it definitely is grounding," he says. 

"You go there and they have no idea what football is. To them, you're just in the same boat they are. 

"Me and my brother, I do a lot of my travelling with him, so we're pretty lucky to have very similar holidays.

"We were incredibly lucky to do a lot of travelling with dad, through his work, when we were younger."

While football is Langdon’s love during the Australian winter, the 22-year-old said that travel was just as important to him. 

"I think I'm one of those guys that will get to the end of my life and think, 'jeez some of those places I went to are pretty cool'," he says.

"I'm going to continue to travel, probably for the rest of my life.

"Along with football, it's the biggest passion I have."