A proper mountain top is, of course, one that you could fall off on any side. As the high point of the Cuillin, Sgurr Alasdair certainly meets that description, says self-confessed exposure-phobe Simon Ingram, in this extract from his book The Black Ridge: Amongst the Cuillin of Skye.
A lot of books came out of the mid-20th Century British climbing boom, including well-selling autobiographies of Bonington and Joe Brown. This one is a bit different, says Ronald Turnbull.
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...
I wandered lonely as a cloud… Except, he didn't. William Wordsworth had his sister Dorothy along with him. Her Lakeland journal proved a valuable source of material for William and their friend and fellow poet Coleridge, says...
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