In his paean to the sport, Feet in the Clouds, Richard Askwith explains pithily: “You run up the fell; you run down again.” Simple it may be; easy it is not. Unlike trail running, which generally stic

I have a terrible habit of signing up for races I’m wholly unsuitable for. First there was the fatbike challenge in the Arctic Circle in midwinter – a chilly affair that saw me trudging through the sn

I actually feel like I’m not much of a risk-taker,” says Louise Ferguson. These are unexpected words coming from the first woman to complete a top-to-bottom race run through the treacherous rocks, off

THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAIN GUIDE CHAMPIONED ‘SKIMO’ TO BECOME AN OFFICIAL SPORT IN THE UK. NOW, IT’S DEBUTING AT THE OLYMPICS

What happens when the Men’s Health fitness director is tasked with road-testing two bikes? He does a double triathlon –and ends up going from review to revelation

Alex Roddie takes his snowshoes from Scotland to the Austrian Tyrol – and finds out just how far he can push them