How i got the shot

How did your career start? I took an interest in birds when I was around four, saved money for my first binoculars at seven, got my first SLR at 12 and shot my first nature pictures for a national mag

Documentary photographer Richard Cross rises above the shortbread tin romanticism that colours so much of our outdoor heritage, with the perspective provided by drone photography applied to land use issues of our day

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

I’m just back from the Arctic (Hurtigruten Post ship round the North Cape and back to Bergen) with some en plein air impressions, a book of pencil sketches and not very good photos. Perhaps one of you

Places we've been, things we've seen, and mountain-related stuff we like

How Claire Macdonald’s film photos from Everest helped her find strength after breast cancer