Grimsel pass

Switzerland is rich, especially in clichés. Many are largely true. There are some I’m not so interested in – banking, precision watches, nuclear shelters and referendums. But others, I certainly am –

The Victorians confused these Shropshire hills with the Alps. How? Why? Trail dons its lederhosen, downs a glühwein and reaches for the Stretton Skyline to find out.

In the closing years of the last millennium, Vuelta a España director Enrique Franco was searching for a spectacle to help his race compete with its more famous French and Italian rivals. He believed

There are many ways to assess a climb – longest, steepest, most elevation, most ascents on Strava – but how do you judge which climb is ‘best’? It’s a pertinent question because the Stwlan Dam climb i

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