28th September
The Pennine Hills are often described as "the backbone of England". There are few places where this is as apparent as on the broad summit ridge of Great Whernside, which sits on the eastern boundary of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, between Wharfedale and Nidderdale. On a clear day, a substan...
Hill surveyors Aled Williams and Myrddyn Phillips, who co-author Welsh summit list Y Pedwarau, have come up with a new category for hills that straddle a national border. Here they explain their logic.
"From Wasdale I decided to take the interesting route up Scafell, via the gully scrambles of Lords Rake and The West Wall Traverse" says film-maker Dave.
"Exciting ascents for a hill walker like myself and certainly not recommended for the inexperienced or ill equipped, due to the extremely steep, loose, rocky terrain, and the potential of rock fall from above. I pitched my Alpkit Soloist tent at 3100ft, just below the summit of Scafell."
A lot of books came out of the mid-20th Century British climbing boom, including well-selling autobiographies of...
Among mountaineering books, there are some that are fun – but only a select handful that are actually funny, says Ronald Turnbull. This send-up of Scottish hill-going captures the 1970s, a time when the era of genteel gents with...
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