Mountains Mend Minds

    Getting active in the outdoors is not only good for your physical health but has been shown to be good for your mental wellbeing, and is prescribed by health services around the world to help tackle depression and anxiety. 

    Let this website inspire you to pull on some hiking boots and use exploring nature to improve your mental health.

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    Walking is wonderful for mental health, and probably in more ways than you think. When you walk (or ...

    9th March 2025

    Did you make a New Year’s resolution? And if you did, have you kept to it so far? Everyone has the...

    20th January 2023

    In July I was fortunate enough to ‘compleat’ the Munros. It was an objective I’d been working ...

    1st October 2022

    I’m not sure where I’d be if it wasn’t for mountains, the outdoors, walking and running. Theyâ...

    3rd May 2022

    A mental health and outdoors advocate has called on political parties fielding candidates in May’s...

    18th January 2022

    After just over four years walking in the hills most weekends, I’m finally in the closing stag...

    4th October 2021

    Mountains Mend Minds, a website dedicated to promoting the mental health benefits of hillwalking, is...

    21st June 2021

    Whether you have summited a handful of Munros or have ‘compleated’ them all you will pro...

    9th May 2021

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