What does it take to run a Bob Graham Round in winter, alone? How has the experience changed over the decades? And what do we even mean by the terms winter, and solo? Keri Wallace speaks to the only two people to have pulled off a solo, unsupported winter BGR, Martin Stone an...
Anne Butler, president of the Munro Society, offers a personal alphabet of hillwalking experiences, from the amazing to the zany.
If you were marooned alone, with only a few hills for company, which would you choose? For lockdown light entertainment we've asked some well known outdoor folk. From the rolling hills overlooking Glasgow, to the most fascinatingly remote of all the Munros,...
If you were marooned alone, with only hills for company, which would you choose? For a bit of lockdown fun we've posed this question to some well known hill folk. Here Anne Butler, President of the Munro Society, fills us in on her personal favourites. And...
Street trials rider Danny MacAskill has released his new video of his ride down the 500m Dubh Slabs on the Isle...
If you were marooned alone, with only a few hills for company, which would you choose, we asked some well known hill folk. Long...
Sports broadcaster Andrew Cotter covers the BBC's major events including The Olympic Games,...
From some angles it's all drama; from others it's hardly there at all. Steeple is a fell with extremes of personality, says Alex Roddie, in our ongoing series of bite sized intros to Britain's favourite hills.
You never quite know what you're going to get on a mountain day, says Richard Haszko. Just occasionally, it's sheer perfection. We're all dreaming of days like these...
Originally intended as a long distance walk from coast to coast, the John Muir Way is also ideal on two wheels, says bikepacking evangelist Markus Stitz. Meanwhile, up in Highland Perthshire, Markus has also been working on a new...
Alex Roddie discovers the delights of Garbh Bheinn, the jewel of Ardgour and among the greatest and most rugged of all the...
Are you looking ahead to light at the end of the Covid tunnel, and beginning to think about big trips again?...
Alex Roddie climbs everyone's favourite miniature mountain in the Peak District - Mam Tor, an easily won summit that's home to...
Mountain rescue expert Dave 'Heavy' Whalley recalls a serious incident in the early 1970s, a time when avalanches in...
It may have been a lockdown-friendly local route he knew well, but a surprise slip on icy ground put fell runner Nick...
Requiring less skill than skiing, and making a big difference when progress on foot would be a nightmare, snowshoes have a clear niche in Scottish winter, reckons Alex Roddie. Having spent years insisting he could do without, Alex is now a...
There are a lot of strong runners out there, but those coming to winter hill running without a grounding in mountain skills may not appreciate the severity of the challenge posed by snow on the hills, says fell running guide Keri Wallace. Here...
Forecasts are great tools at the planning stage, but once out on the hill you'll have to rely on your own observations and judgement. In the final part of our series Will talks us through the vital skill of staying alert and open minded.
In part 4 of our series on winter weather and avalanche forecasts, Will breaks down the planning and decision making process into a clear, step-by-step system, which can be used whether you're walking, skiing or climbing.
While the working classes were trespassing on the grouse moors of Kinder, the sons of the grouse-shooting set were busy illicitly clambering up the dreaming spires of Cambridge (and they were probably at it in Oxford too). Put a group of advent...
Robert Louis Stevenson was the greatest Scottish hillwalker to never walk up any hills, says Ronald Turnbull. However, he did make a long a 'backpacking' journey through southern France, and his account forms the...
This engaging memoir by one of the pioneering women of the inter-war years is one of the best accounts we have of the sheer fun of climbing rocks, hills and mountains, says Ronald Turnbull.
The biography of Alison Hargreaves is the story of a life of drive and talent cut short by tragic circumstance,...
With barely a word of Spanish, and scarcely a penny to his name, young Laurie Lee set out on foot across...
If you want to be carried away by the power of words and share the intoxicated joy of that man on that ledge with the...
Back in 1980, in an age of sludgy photos and plodding layout, this glossy collection of classic challenges hit the...
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