Free-range history

Today, down jackets built for K2 are worn on the school run and premium waterproofs pop up in pubs. In their photo book, Max Leonard and Henry Iddon track down hard-as-nails but unheralded mountaineers and the fabric innovators who put them safely – and sometimes even stylishly – on summits to ask how we got here

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Alicante is famous for its beaches; less so for its hiking. But in the Sierra de la Serrella, a short hop from the city, Isis Taylor discovers a network of trails that combine natural beauty with an insight into ancient cultures

Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders Rory Stewart (Jonathan ...

Geocaching is often described as a way of ‘using billions of dollars of US satellite technology to find plastic boxes in the woods’. The word geocache comes from ‘geo’, meaning earth (think geography)