Do you daydream about swapping the rat race for an outdoor-centric existence The trailblazers here have all taken dramatic steps to change their lives their stories might just inspire you to do the same

Photographer Feargus Cooney shares nearly two decades of learning how to thrive in the Scottish winter mountains, and the series of stunning, sometimes hard-won images that have resulted

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

She grew up believing in divine creation, but a radical rethink led Ella Al-Shamahi to evolutionary biology. Now, the presenter of the BBC science series Human shares her story

Focus on the positive. Since having breast cancer in 2014, it’s what I try to do every day. I’m well, I’m fit, I have a great career, I’ve got a great kid and stepkids, I’ve got grandkids and a loving