It’s a hardknott life

Fancy doing something achievable yet ludicrous? The Land’s End Trial is 16 hours of mud, rocks and bacon sarnies. And it’s utterly fantastic…

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Melanie O’Shea is a freelance travel and adventure writer based in Penzance, Cornwall. She recently completed Macmillan’s Gower Peninsula, 26-mile ‘Mighty Hike’. In 1926, three avid mountain walkers g

SCOTTISH SIX DAYS TRIAL

The 125K race starts in Inverie, a remote village on the Knoydart peninsula, accessible only by a boat or two-day hike. There is an extremely lively community-owned pub plus an impressively stocked co

YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAIL