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Primus is giving you the opportunity to make your summer camp all the better this year by offering one UKC user the chance to ...
Community Action Nepal, the charity founded by the late British mountaineer Doug Scott CBE, has been granted exclusive access ...
Making a circular route on passes in the main massif of the Southern Fells is not straightforward: sure, there's a fine ...
"In the hills you're likely the first responder—and your actions matter". A heart attack far from the help of the emergency ...
In 2023 the members of the Eden Valley Mountaineering Club (EVMC), based around Penrith, climbed all the 214 Wainwright summits in the Lake District without the use of a car by using buses, trains, ...
A dramatic massif of chunky granite tors and starkly beautiful north coast views, Ben Loyal is up there with the greatest of Scotland's mountains. Rising from sea level, its distinctive ...
The construction of the Mullardoch hydro dam in the 1950s flooded upper Glen Cannich, finishing what the Clearances started by making an unpopulated emptiness where people once lived. While elsewhere ...
The western edge of the Kinder plateau makes for a fine circuit of the skyline overlooking the eponymous reservoir, with excellent views over Lantern Pike to the Cheshire plain, with the Welsh hills ...
Buttermere is as close to heaven as most of us will ever see, and this circuit of the skyline surrounding the lake is a voyage filled with both variety and delight. There is sylvan loveliness on the ...
If you can't get to the hills or crags over the festive season then the next best thing is reading about them. From long-awaited new guidebooks, to lavish landscape photography, via biographies of ...
This is a fabulous mountain walk in the unique hills of Arran, with some interesting scrambling terrain. The round takes in three mountains of the finest granite, including Beinn Tarsuinn, one of the ...
A momentary need for inspiration in the middle of a day at the desk led to some internet searches, and up popped this route. It grabbed my attention and so it was, some two months later, that I found ...