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 adventurous young people in an environment consisting of buildings, says Ronald Turnbull, and they are bou...
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 superior blueprint for ten thou...
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, says Ronald Turnbull.
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...
To experience the real freedom of the mountains, you've just got to break out of a prison camp to get to them,...
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