Ain’t no mountain high enough

As an occultist, novelist, painter, poet and magician, Aleister Crowley was notorious as a master of the dark arts. He’s less well known for his short but pioneering climbing career.

Sometimes, whether down to judgement or pure bad luck, things go wrong. We gathered a team of experts and asked them to tell us about a time the proverbial hit the fan – and how they escaped.

Wildly fluctuating temperatures, punishing verticality, brushes with mountain lions – the Grand Canyon’s Rim to Rim to Rim endurance run is not for the faint-hearted. Duncan Craig takes on the ‘big red ditch’

Mum of four and near-legendary mountaineer, Nikol Kovalchuk is redefining what’s possible – one peak at a time

You only get one chance to live your life but until you find yourself fighting just to stay alive, you don’t realise quite how precious that life is. Now, though, I remind myself how lucky I am every

With his Sprung video magazine series and Earthed films, Alex Rankin set the standard for mountain bike filmmaking. Known for his pan-and-zoom camerawork and eclectic music choices, he inspired a whol