MBA Trustee Juls Stodel shares her own tale of rescue in the hopes it’ll ease the stigma felt by a walker cragfast in shame a year after calling on Mountain Rescue

In professional mountain biking, it’s downhilling that is the most dynamic… and dangerous. Dominic Bliss met the crazy riders at the 2025 downhilling World Championships, in the Swiss Valais region, and discovered why they launch themselves down steep mountain trails at full tilt

Ben Macdui 4295ft/1309m

The high point of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs doesn’t give up its magnificent views easily. But they are worth every straining sinew.

3 6.3km/3.9 miles/3-4 hours Ascent 760m/2493ft

Bikes love bends, so find out where the UK’s best combinations of corners are with RiDE’s guide to the ultimate stretches of twisty tarmac