The high life: chris bonington

As an occultist, novelist, painter, poet and magician, Aleister Crowley was notorious as a master of the dark arts. He’s less well known for his short but pioneering climbing career.

The Cuillin Ridge is often regarded as Britain’s most sustained and technical mountaineering excursion. Co-editor David Lintern attempted a ‘walker’s traverse’ of this infamous challenge, supporting a friend’s Munro round. In an environment now largely professionalised, theirs was an adventure by amateurs in the classic sense

YOUR MOUNTAIN SNAPS & TALES FROM THE TRAILS

Sometimes, whether down to judgement or pure bad luck, things go wrong. We gathered a team of experts and asked them to tell us about a time the proverbial hit the fan – and how they escaped.

Poet, lecturer and Mountain Leader Emily Zobel Marshall returns home for an epic adventure over the Welsh 3000s – the highest and most multi-storied mountains of Eryri

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