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YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

The Cuillin Ridge is often regarded as Britain’s most sustained and technical mountaineering excursion. Co-editor David Lintern attempted a ‘walker’s traverse’ of this infamous challenge, supporting a friend’s Munro round. In an environment now largely professionalised, theirs was an adventure by amateurs in the classic sense

WHOEVER COINED the phrase ‘don’t mix business with pleasure’ certainly wasn’t offered the use of a VW California Ocean for the week. Handily, that’s not a mantra I live by, and I was quick to point ou

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’

How long does it take to fill up a car? When the difference between a fast fuel pump and a slow one and a big tank and a small one is three minutes, the answer is ‘who cares?’. That said, I still find

BACK in the days when a tankful of petrol cost as much as we pay for a coffee today, our sunny Sunday afternoon treat was a drive out. If we weren’t aiming for the beach, our route took us north to th