The Great Outdoors – August 2019

people

reached the

summit of

Everest in

2018

807

three hundred

EVEREST was

recognised as the

HIGHEST MOUNTAIN

in the world in

of litter

AND EIGHTY ONE

11,

IT COSTS

ARCHIVE

“The mountain of Canigou is invested with so much political and

personal hope by the Catalan people that to climb it blind, to follow

nothing more than a map and compass, would be to miss the point.”

DaviD Gray

The Great Outdoors, May 2014

Music lovers attending this year’s

Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival – the

Highlands’ longest-running music

festival – are being encouraged to

help rewild the Scottish Highlands

by having their own trees planted by

conservation charity Trees for Life.

With growing concerns about the

threats of climate change and loss of

nature, the organisers of ‘Bella’ 2019

are calling on attendees to mitigate

the carbon impact of travelling to

the event near Inverness through

donations to fund native trees. Every

tree will help Trees for Life restore the

globally important Caledonian Forest

together with its precious wildlife

such as red squirrels and pine

martens. The trees donated will be

planted at Trees for Life’s acclaimed

Dundreggan Conservation Estate

• a 10,000-acre forest regeneration
  site and biodiversity hotspot in
  Glenmoriston near Loch Ness.
  The award-winning charity will
  have a dedicated presence at Bella
  from 1st-3rd August, so that attendees
  can discover more about rewilding
  the Highlands.
  For more information see
  treesforlife.org.uk/bella and
  tartanheartfestival.co.uk.

IN NUMBERS

MOUNT

EVEREST

Culture

MOUNTAIN

£8,

Festivalgoers

urged to help

rewild the

Highlands

View

THE

FROM HERE

Souther Fell

Hart Side

Great Dodd Clough Head Bowfell

High Seat

Great Gable

Walla Crag

Bleaberry

Fell

Old Coach Road

High Rigg

St John's Church

Most

Everest

expeditions

TAKE

1856

Photo: Ronald Turnbull

The world’s highest mountain

has been the centre of renewed

controversy since a photo of people

queuing to reach the summit

went viral in May. Here we take a

look at some of the figures that

make the mountain.

New scheme from Trees for Life to

help further expand tree regeneration

permits were issued to climbers this spring to climb

TWO

months

A recent

effort to clean

up Everest

removed

TONNES

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