The Great Outdoors Magazine

27 October 2023

YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE TO WINTER SKILLS - Everything You Need to Know to Climb Snow-Covered Mountains - We team up with Glenmore Lodge for a 12-page special on winter skills and safety. Ultimately, the best way to learn is on a course; so with the cold months looming, now is an excellent time to get one booked. Other skills articles dot the issue, and our gear section rounds up the best crampons, ice axes and winter boots, giving a total of 29 pages of technical winter advice through the issue. Those fabled perfect winter conditions may be becoming less predictable; but when they arrive – as James Roddie is reminded on p24 – they can be out-of-this-world amazing, transforming Britain’s hills into something else entirely. Who needs the Alps when you’ve got the snow-covered ridges of Torridon, with views over the Hebrides and the shimmering Atlantic?