The new year is here, so let’s make it an adventurous one. TGO is starting as we mean to go on – no, not with a listicle (!) but with our pick of high and wild places to get you excited and keep you inspired throughout 2026

Neither the tallest nor the toughest (apart from one infamous moment of dread) – yet STAC POLLAIDH is quite clearly* Scotland’s greatest mountain.

What would it be like to stay on a tiny, remote island, with no other visitors or inhabitants, shops or people? Suzy Walker takes a trip to Scotland to find out

Columnist Jim Perrin returns to his beloved France to pay tribute to one of Europe’s holy mountains, taking writer Jan Morris and one of our editors along for a zig-zag ride in a trusty old Citroën… or is it a Bentley?!

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

Places we've been, things we've seen, and mountain-related stuff we like