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COMPETITION: Win a pair of Climbing Technology North Couloir Axes

The North Couloir is an all round technical tool designed to excel over a wide range of conditions and terrain. It's the ideal axe for those operating in the...

REVIEW: Christmas Books - Our Recommendations

From inspiring new rock guides and big name autobiographies, through glossy photography books to some fascinating writing compilations, readers this Christmas...

NEWS: HIE Takes Over Cairngorm Mountain

HIE have taken control of the Cairngorm snowsports centre, but whether it will operate as normal at all this winter still remains to be seen.

FRI NIGHT VID: The Ant & The Whale

Our Friday Night Video this week is from Dom Bush from Land and Sky Media. The film is based on a conversation with his friend, Ian Almond and how Ian misjudged a...

Featured Route Card: Beinn Challum via the Northwest Spur

An easily accessed Munro, Beinn Challum may look uninspiring from the Crianlarich side, but this is deceptive. There’s some impressive terrain hidden away on...

Recent News

HIE Takes Over Cairngorm Mountain

15 Dec 2018

Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Scottish Government's economic and community development agency for the area, has taken...

Foel Penolau – Wales Gains a New Hewitt and Simm

5 Dec 2018

A survey team have discovered that a hitherto-neglected summit in the wild northern Rhinogydd actually turns out to qualify as a...

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Arc'teryx Alpine Academy: Knots for Glacier Travel

Aug 2017

In this video, Peter Mason explains a useful knot for walking on glaciers.

Digital Features

Marmot Photography Awards 2017

UKClimbing and UKHillwalking are proud to announce the winners of the 2017 Marmot Photography Awards. An automatic selection of five photos from each of the categories on site was made based on the votes from the previous 12 months. Users were then asked to vote for the overall winners of each category from this selection. In addition to the category awards, we also have three overall winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd), which were selected by professional photographer Tim Glasby.

Marmot Photography Awards 2016

An automatic selection of five photos from each of the catagories on site was made based on the votes from the previous 12 months. Users were then asked to vote for the overall winners of each catagory from this selection. In addition to the category awards we also have three overall winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd), which were selected by professional photographer Tim Glasby.

Helen Mort - No Map Could Show Them

No Map Could Show Them. The pioneering Victorian women in mountaineering of the early twentieth Century. The women whose narratives and achievements became lost in the mountains, where they forged paths and ascended; their stories brought back down to earth, only to be silenced by the patriarchy.

Starlight and Storm

In this full screen Digital Feature, Jack Geldard and Nick Brown explore the life and tragic death of Alison Hargreaves and how her achievements have influenced her son, Tom Ballard.

With stunning historical images and exclusive video, this feature captures the experiences of Alison and Tom in an absorbing and aesthetic style and delves in to the extraordinary lives of both mother and son.