IT was a long time ago but I remember the day vividly. I was climbing a route on Ben Nevis when I fell and broke my ankle. My companions helped me…
IT was a long time ago but I remember the day vividly. I was climbing a route on Ben Nevis when I fell and broke my ankle. My companions helped me…
THE Lairig Ghru’s high point at the Pools of Dee looked forbidding. With the cloud lowering over the 4000ft giants on either side and heavy showers…
THE Lairig Ghru’s high point at the Pools of Dee looked forbidding. With the cloud lowering over the 4000ft giants on either side and heavy showers…
I NEVER tire of visiting Glen Tilt – it has to be one of Scotland’s most beautiful glens, largely because the track through it, a former drove…
I NEVER tire of visiting Glen Tilt – it has to be one of Scotland’s most beautiful glens, largely because the track through it, a former drove…
ONLY a hill, but all of life to me, up there between the sunset and the sea. The poet, as far as I know, is anonymous, but this line rings true for me…
ONLY a hill, but all of life to me, up there between the sunset and the sea. The poet, as far as I know, is anonymous, but this line rings true for me…
IT ranks as one of the finest mountain scrambles in Scotland – the traverse of the Forcan Ridge to a Munro prize at the end, The Saddle.
IT ranks as one of the finest mountain scrambles in Scotland – the traverse of the Forcan Ridge to a Munro prize at the end, The Saddle.
THERE are no dull hills, only dull people. It’s a saying that sticks in my mind when anyone calls a hill “dull” or “uninspiring”.
THERE are no dull hills, only dull people. It’s a saying that sticks in my mind when anyone calls a hill “dull” or “uninspiring”.
IF you’re looking for “get away from it all”, you’ve struck gold with this former hunting lodge of the MacDonald clan, steeped in history and tucked away…
VENTURE above Ullapool into Assynt and you enter a world of distinctive peaks with striking outlines, built of rocks dating back millions of years. This…
HIGH hills don’t have a monopoly on the best views. Often it’s lower summits that provide them, and that’s certainly the case with a Corbett neighbouring…
THE solitary stone sits alongside a couple of lonesome pines on a track high above the village of Cromdale on Speyside. Marked as Clach nam Piobair –…
THE mist parted suddenly and the summit pinnacle of Sgurr nan Clach Geala reared up like the prow of a great ship.
A winter skills course run by Glenmore Lodge, learning the basics of competent movement on the mountains in winter
WITH snow and ice covering the Ullapool road early on a winter’s morning, I was seriously worried whether I’d be able to reach the start of my walk in…
J?OHN shook me awake. After a night of fitful sleep in the tent I had fallen into a dream-filled slumber and didn’t hear the alarm. ?It was 4 o’clock…