The Reaction Jacket is our toughest 2-layer jacket with GORE-TEX ePE membrane. Updated for Winter '25 the Reaction Jacket is ...

In 1994 a Danish company Vestergaard, which eventually gave life to LifeStraw, partnered with the Carter Foundation to ...

When it comes to ultra distances, veteran female runners often seem to have the edge, and the longer the race gets the greater these advantages appear to become. Yet nobody escapes the ...

Each rises 600m or more from its surroundings; there are 119 of them; and they're scattered all over Britain and Ireland, ...

A spread out crag, with odd shaped pinnacles and a more traditional edge set low down to the west. Offwidths galore, the climbing can be brutal or delicate or both. Gets green, so get out there and do ...

Naismith's Rule is a formula that can be used when planning a hill route to work out - roughly - how long it ought to take. Devised in 1892 by the Victorian mountaineer William Naismith, this well ...

Grade 2 scrambles are tricky to define: much easier and they'd be grade 1s, attracting every walker with a head for heights; but any harder and you'll hit the borderline rock climbing territory of ...

In the latest instalment of our series on relocating to the hills, Mehmet Karatay weighs the pros and cons of Speyside. With the Cairngorms on the doorstep and easy access both to the north and west ...

2017 has been a great year for female hill and trail runners. In September Swedish sensation Emelie Forsberg made waves by breaking the female record for the Glen Coe Skyline race; more recently, two ...

Munro bagging can have its exciting moments, but it's fair to say that it is usually at the less technical end of the hill-going spectrum. Even if there are harder options, most Munros can be achieved ...

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From its rugged-but manageable mountains to its progressive access laws, Scotland could have been made with backpackers in mind. The big walks here are world class. In their new book Scottish Wild ...