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Article Citizen Science in UK Mountain Environments - Get Involved!

Amanda Vestergaard writes about the connection between the mountains, mountaineering and science - and how you can get involved in helping to protect the environments that we walk and climb in. Whether it be glaciology, geology or alpine ecology, the bond between mountaineers and environmental science runs deep and ...


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book Book Extract: The Hillwalking Bible by Ronald Turnbull

In these extracts from his new book 'The Hillwalking Bible', Ronald Turnbull examines the attractions of walking, and one of its commonest pitfalls...

Article Prisoners of the Caucasus

Matthew Shipton writes about the Caucasus as the ultimate liminal mountain range, as a physical bridge between the Alps and the Himalaya, between north and south, east and west, with a storied geopolitical past and present. But also as a place where climbing...

Article Six Key Pieces of Historic Mountain Clothing

The authors of a forthcoming book on British outdoor clothing (Kickstarting now!) pick out six key pieces of clothing from their research. Garments that contributed to the history of mountaineering and the popular love of the outdoors – and...

Article Because it's Mallory, and he's still There

Ahead of the one-hundredth anniversary of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine's disappearance on Everest on 8...

Running London's First Ever Mountain Marathon

If you're raising money for a charity that helps introduce young people from the city to the mountains, what better way to do it...

My Favourite Map For Life, Not Just For Christmas

Give someone a map and you're passing on the gift of imagination, says Norman Hadley. Four decades after receiving a Lake District set...

Bagging Doing the Dochartys - The Hill List You've Probably Never Heard Of

After an early completion of the Munros in 1948 Willie Docharty was at a loss for a list, so he made...

Bagging Anna Wells on the Winter Munro Round

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Article International Mountain Day 2023 - Mountains & Climate Science at COP28

My Favourite Map Lochs, Rocks, and a Bad Bog

Article Dàna - Scotland's Wild Places: Scottish Climbing on the BBC

KMF22 Our Top Picks for Kendal Mountain Festival 2023

Sustainable Gear: The Evolution of Gore Tex - ePTFE, ePE and PFC-free DWR Treatments


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