Follow in the footsteps of a Welsh king by scaling Cader Idris, but beware: it’s said those who sleep on the peak are destined to become poets or go mad

Our walks this month 1 Fuar Tholl & ...

Our celebration of mighty mini-peaks kicks off on the North Wales coast, where this scenic summit offers all the gain – without the strain.

BIG LITTLE MOUNTAINS

We leafed through the well-thumbed pages of our atlas until North Wales stopped us in our tracks. Anglesey felt like a place apart. A few weeks later, we found ourselves waist-high in prickly gorse, s

These days, there’s a lot of talk about the politics of personality, but standing in an extensive cave system near West Wycombe, we were transported to a time when politics was at the centre of a scen