Friends in high places

Why volunteering in our wild places does as much for you as it does for the mountains.

Jim Perrin remembers the giant of Mull, an elegant outlier leaning seaward

MOUNTAINS DO STRANGE THINGS to us. You see ...

■ Distance: 5½ miles/8.5km ■ Time: 6-7hours ■Grade: ...

Our walks is mon Alex Roddie 1 ...

I’M LYING ON A MATTRESS IN ROS’S FRONT GARDEN, arms folded over her garden wall. Half a mile away the first bike leaves the line. Before it gets to us in about 13 seconds time it will already have had