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conservation Missing Wildlife - Lost Species That Re-Wilding Could Return to Britain's Hills

The UK has some of the lowest biodiversity on earth. Most of our uplands are ecologically barren, but they don't have to be. So what animals are missing, and how might the landscape familiar to climbers and walkers change if they returned? Sarah Ryan looks at some key species, and the impact they could have on renewing lost habitats.

The Pigeon Sisters

From fame and first asents to frostbite and controversy, Rebecca Batley writes about the incredible lives of the Pigeon sisters.

Interview Keri Wallace - Winter Tranter Round FKT

Lochaber-based running guide Keri Wallace recently fulfilled a long-held ambition to complete Tranter's Round in winter, in the process setting a new women's winter record of 21 hours and 5 minutes. "I honestly had no idea it would take me three...

My Move To The Mountains My Move to the Mountains: Life in Wester Ross

Many of us must have dreamed of upping sticks for somewhere with better climbing or more mountains. But it's not all sunny days and free time; life in the hills has challenges too. In our new series, people who have made the break share their...

Interview Andy Berry on Breaking the Winter Tranter Round Record

On Saturday January 28th, Andy Berry set a new winter record on the Tranter Round, beating local...

Essay Family Days on Iron Ways: Taking on a Via Ferrata with kids

Sam Walmsley talks us through the challenges you can expect, both psychical and emotional, when...

Feature Penlan - In Search of Deep Country

"Living off-grid here must have been a wonderful experience - though one not suited to everyone..." Myrddyn...


Running The Lakeland Eight Hundreds - An Ultra Challenge for the Next Generation?

Fellrunner Norman Hadley sketches out a new, logically metric Lake District challenge route that only the very best could do in a day. Do you fancy being the first? Or perhaps you'd prefer to backpack it over several days...?

Winter Snowshoeing In and Around Chamonix - Seven Top Routes

Snowshoeing is often dismissed as tame, but for non-skiing walkers it's a great way to explore Alpine winter wonderlands far from the resort bustle. With access to quiet areas away from the steeper mountains of the Mont Blanc range, Chamonix is...

Running Going Solo on the Corris Round in Winter

The Corris Round is a circular running route in southern Eryri (Snowdonia), taking in 12 peaks from the Tarren and Cadair Idris ranges across to Maesglase. Jade Phillips hit it in a gorgeous weather window in early December...

Backpacking West Highland (High)Way - The Mountain Alternative

The West Highland Way is trodden by thousands. But while the route has plenty of scenery, it misses all the best...

Backpacking Scottish Wild Country 12 Great Journeys

Scotland has world class big walks. In their new book Scottish Wild Country Backpacking, authors Peter Edwards,...

Best Horrible Hills for Halloween

Hard to believe it's Halloween again. Why not give the trick or treating and tooth decay a miss this year and creep yourself out up a hill...

Stag Spotting in Lakeland

Norman Hadley enjoys an annual autumn foray into the secluded valley of Martindale, where red deer vastly outnumber humans, and the seasonal...


Simple Items That Might Save Your Life A Whistle

Though it weighs just a few grams, costs peanuts, and fits unnoticed in your pocket, a humble whistle could be one of the most important things you carry on...

Food Festive Leftovers and Xmas Hill Snacks, Ranked

From Christmas cake to cold brussel sprouts, Fliss Freeborn and friends hill-test seasonal treats and leftovers. Which Yuletide goodies offer the biggest calorie hit for the weight; which foods can be tackled wearing ski gloves; and which are best left...

children Are We Nearly There Yet? - Tips for Walking With Kids

Hillwalking with children can be a fantastic experience for the whole family - but as every new parent soon finds out, it's not always sunshine and smiles. Here's our hard-won advice for keeping the youngsters enthused, and the grownups (mostly)...

Skills Snail's Pace: Coping With Being the Slowest Person on the Hill

It can be demoralising if your walking buddies always leave you for dust, but for the faster walker it's hard not to get frustrated too. Often at the rear herself, though never backward in coming forward, Fliss Freeborn suggests coping...

Top Tips Autumn Walking

More than just a transition period taking us from trainers to crampons, the next few months should be some of the best on the hills. But you'll need to sharpen up. Winter is just around the corner, so now's the time to dig out warm clothing, add an extra headtorch, and tighten...

Reusing a plastic water bottle.  © Tom Ripley

Skills 12 Ways to Save Cash on Outdoor Gear

An ultralight, but - in the conditions - perfectly comfortable camp   © Norman Hadley

backpacking Fastpacking - Without a Pack

May not be as midge-free as the pub, but it's a darn sight cheaper  © Fliss Freeborn

Skills Channel Your Inner Dirtbag: How to Save Money in the Outdoors

Clearly the author has never cared about glam clothing  © Barry Evans

Skills 15 Lessons From 50 Years of Backpacking


Mountain Air 10. Kirsty Pallas on Scottish Mountain Safety

In this episode of Mountain Air, Dan Aspel meets outdoor instructor Kirsty Pallas. Members of Mountaineering Scotland may recognise Kirsty as one of the group's Mountain Safety Advisors. She also works to promote inclusivity in the hills as a c...

Mountain Air 9. Doug Bartholomew: Managing Beinn Eighe's Wild Spaces

From woodland regeneration to visitor engagement, what does it take to oversee an iconic mountain landscape on behalf of both nature and people? Dan Aspel talks with Doug Bartholomew, the man in charge of one of Scotland's great wild...

Mountain Air 8. J. Robert Harris on a Lifetime of Adventure

Dan Aspel tracks down the irrepressible New Yorker J. Robert Harris, veteran of dozens of backpacking journeys around the world. "When I first saw grass, I tried to smoke it" he recalls. So what drove a kid from the inner city projects to...


Mountain Literature Classics: Menlove

A bold and talented climber responsible for some great North Wales routes (and a few horrors), and a writer of hard, stripped-back climbing prose, John Menlove Edwards was also deeply troubled. What makes Jim Perrin's biography a classic, says ...

Mountain Literature Classics: Basho - Narrow Road to the Deep North

More than a century before the romantic poets strode the British landscape in search of the sublime, a Japanese writer made months-long journeys on foot, motivated by remarkably similar urges. Basho's walks have everything we...

Mountain Literature Classics: Conquistadors of the Useless by Lionel Terray

This autobiography from one of the great postwar French alpinists is a bit like a high altitude expedition, says Ronald Turnbull - some rough going, some boring bits, and some surprising airy arêtes.

Mountain Literature Classics: Mont Blanc, Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni

Written in 1816, Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem is crucial not just to an understanding...

Mountain Literature Classics: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

In the mid 20th Century it wasn't real travel, says Ronald Turnbull, without danger, extreme discomfort,...

Mountain Literature Classics: Walking with Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that no young woman, of eighteen or twenty summers, may attain the rôle...

Mountain Literature Classics: Walking Home by Simon Armitage

A man walking down the Pennine Way from Kirk Yetholm to Edale. The difference, says Ronald Turnbull, is...


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