Scaling heart-attack hill

Some things are just funny, and when it comes to innuendo Wales has one mountain to rule them all: LORD HEREFORD’S KNOB . It seems rude not to spend a wild night on it.

The Cuillin Ridge is often regarded as Britain’s most sustained and technical mountaineering excursion. Co-editor David Lintern attempted a ‘walker’s traverse’ of this infamous challenge, supporting a friend’s Munro round. In an environment now largely professionalised, theirs was an adventure by amateurs in the classic sense

Jim Perrin recalls a short season picking apples below a serpentine ridge squeezed between rivers

Legend has it that Winnats got its name from the words ‘wind gates’. If you say it fast enough and imagine it coming from the mouth of an ancient Peakland shepherd shouting over a howling gale blowing

This year marks the 625th anniversary of The Canterbury Tales author – and “father of English literature” – Geoffrey Chaucer’s death. He penned this classic, about a merry band of medieval pilgrims te

August has a reputation among followers of the natural world for being something of a non-event, but, with a sickle in his hand, John Lewis-Stempel is granted a glimpse of a magical underworld in a field of ripe wheat