footsteps

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the route or journey a person takes in order to reach a place or to achieve something:

follow someone's footsteps The experience allows you to follow the footsteps of the explorers to Earth's last great wilderness.

The team set out to follow the footsteps of Captain Robert Falcon Scott.

in someone's footsteps Park visitors can walk in the footsteps of the intrepid settlers who first forged this trail through the Rocky Mountains.