The Great Outdoors Magazine

28 October 2022

Does winter make you feel like hibernating? How about embracing adventure instead? With a bit know-how, snow-covered mountains offer a fun, exciting and beautiful world to explore. This issue comes with a bumper 17-page guide to the skills you need to take on winter mountains. With the help of the experts at Glenmore Lodge, we explain how to use crampons, wield ice axes, understand avalanche risk and more, showing that this exciting snowy world isn’t as intimidating as it may seem. Elsewhere, join us to climb Ben Nevis and wild camp on Scafell Pike in winter; hike a section of one of the world’s most exciting new treks, the Transcaucasian Trail; and equip yourself with the best winter accessories with the help of our in-depth reviews of headtorches and winter eyewear.