The Great Outdoors Spring 2019

most beloved mountain regions to climb in favour of Torridon's famous ‘Big Three’ TORRIDON PHOTOS: ALEX NAIL The Great Outdoors ...

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[previous spread] Beinn Eighe and Liathach, seen from Beinn Dearg [left] Torridonian sandstone boulders on Beinn Dearg, Liathach ...

[above] On the summit ridge of Beinn Dearg, with Baosbheinn visible ahead and Beinn An Eoin to the right [right] Boulder-hopping ...

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the day before, returning to the bealach. From there a short ascent took us to a raised plateau scattered with lochans. Some sli ...

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ONTHELANDSCAPE Ben Lerwill takes a walk around the Peak District’s Ladybower and Derwent Reservoirs to consider the significance ...

I’VE JUST WALKED UP Parkin Clough the kind of short, sharp ascent that gets a sweat going – to ind myself alone on the summit o ...

found a little bit of the Scottish Highlands [above and below] Derwent Reservoir in the Midlands.” For outdoor writer and local ...

of Ladybower. he trees are tall – from a distance the plantations look as neat and speared as ields of crops – but they allow pl ...

it’s been purposely moulded to be accessible can only be a good thing. What’s commendable, in fact, is that these three artiicia ...

EMERGING FROM THE WATER Last autumn, unusually low water levels at Ladybower Reservoir after the hot, dry summer revealed the re ...

1 2 3 4 5 FIVE OTHER NOTEWORTHY BRITISH RESERVOIRS 1 HAWESWATER, LAKE DISTRICT Six and a half kilometres long and almost a kilom ...

Photo: Stewart Smith / Alamy The Munro Shuf f le Marking the centenary of the death of Sir Hugh Munro, a fascinating new exhibit ...

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The Munros A n evolving list When Hugh Munro – he became Sir Hugh in 1913 – presented his list of mountains exceeding 3,000t to ...

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One of the advantages of this, of course, is that there would be no need to scrabble up the technically demanding Inaccessible P ...