5 things you need to know this month

1 A festival is breaking down barriers Around ...

Places we've been, things we've seen, and mountain-related stuff we like

One of Britain’s tallest falls is a bewitching plume of white water plunging nearly 60 metres into a voluptuous valley in the magnificent Moffat Hills, in Scotland’s southern uplands. As impressive as

National parks were established to enable everybody to have access to some of the UK’s most impressive landscapes. They provide thousands of kilometres of right-of-way routes, including over 800 miles

The village shop that sold pick ‘n’ mix sweets. A cowpat-strewn country lane with occasional glimpses of Glastonbury Tor. Leaping the wooden stile into Butterfly Wood. It’s over 30 years since I last

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight