The Great Outdoors – August 2019
apparently sucking up draughts of warm air from the Mediterranean. This meant we had a hot and sticky trudge up the corrie path. ...
42 The Great OutdoorsAugust 2019 When summit-seeker Sarah Stirling moved from Chamonix to Snowdonia three years ago, she unexpec ...
AFTER LOOKING AROUND to check I was alone, I put down my rucksack, stripped off my human cares and stepped in – pure, peaceful b ...
workout. But did you know that intensity doesn’t have to mean further or faster? When wild swimming, I discovered, high intensit ...
modern take for the ‘rewilding’ age, our appreciation for taking the plunge outdoors has been rather cyclical. It was, for examp ...
If you don’t mind a non-circular route, I’d recommend climbing Snowdon via the Llanberis Path and descending the Watkin. You can ...
Map: David Langworth across to the Irish Sea over untracked, wild terrain. Striding past the summit, you reach the grassy banks ...
The Devils Kitchen ' ...
The Devils Kitchen AND OTHER STORIES Daniel Neilson goes in search of a devilishly good day out in the British hills PHOTOGRAPHY ...
WHY SHOULD THE DEVIL, as the adage goes, have all the best tunes? The devil has certainly made his mark on the pantheon of rock ...
Journeys of a German in England in 1782, as recounted in Roly Smith’s book A Peak District Anthology, he described entering the ...
[above] Bod an Deamhain, the Devil's Point, rises high above the Lairig Ghru laid these rocks, unknown years in the past. I thin ...
David Friedrich’s Alpine scenes or J.M.W. Turner’s stormy seas. Burke, Milton and the later Romantic painters were investigating ...
I HAD A REVELATION below Bidein Druim nan Ramh in the Cuillin: one of those moments when a significant piece in your mental map ...
PHOTOS: TOM PRENTICE In creating a modern photo-rich guidebook to Skye’s peaks, Tom Prentice gained an intimate knowledge of the ...
photographs, and was probably the first Scottish hillwalking guide to have annotated photo-diagrams with route lines on them. Ho ...
THREE ROUTES FROM THE BOOK 1) SGURR MHICCHOINNICH – NORTH-WEST RIDGE It is fitting that this peak is one of the finest in the Cu ...
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Paul Beasley sets out to follow a Lakeland watercourse from source to sea – but inclement weather and a bedraggled teenager have ...
“I have got to find the river... Leave the road and memorise This life that pass before my eyes Nothing is going my way” 'Find t ...
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