Jay Mistry from West Yorkshire, and a keen hiker of Britain's highest mountains, believes there is no longer a stigma attached to mental health issues and has encouraged anyone suffering in silence to speak out about it instead of bottling it up. The 33-year-old, who went...
While the country is in lockdown, we thought we would get you thinking about your first adventures when the hills are open again by showing you our top ten favourite Munro summit views. Number 10: Gairich ('The Roaring') The position of Gairich which rises above Loch Quoich,...
On the 15th June last year, Gus Pattullo became the 6,564th person to become a Munro 'compleatist' - someone who has 'bagged' all 282 of Scotland's mountains over 3,000 feet. The final mountain on this quest, which took Gus just seven years to complete, was Stob Bàn, a...
Rising above the Kingdom of Fife are the county's highest summits, the Lomond Hills. Like the far more famous mountain to the west of similar name, "Lomond" means "beacon", a name which was bestowed upon these hills hundreds of years ago during the Middle Ages and...
I write this contemplating my current frustration; buttons having popped off, Velcro no longer sticky, zip buggered and a rip. These are the ghost of waterproof trousers past. My lunchtime walk this Saturday will take me to Tiso or Cotswolds and a new pair of proofs will be...
Hike Me Happy! Studies have shown that outdoor activities like hiking can benefit our mental health in a variety of ways. In this article I consider some of the ways hiking has been good for me. Hiking and Mental Health A recent review of numerous scientific studies shows that physical exercise...
Hey! My name’s Grace and I’m fairly new to hiking having only started in January 2019. The end of 2018 was tough for me for a variety of reasons. It led me into bad habits of always eating junk food, staying in bed all the time, and drinking a...
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In 2015 I was tricked into climbing my first Munro. My friend told me that we were going for a short walk and picnic to the Lost Valley in Glencoe. But we kept going! Around 6 hours and 1000 metres of ascent and descent later...
HELLO. My name is Ross, and I’m a Munro bagger. For anyone who doesn’t know, a Munro is a Scottish mountain which is 3000 feet in height or higher. They are called Munros because it was Sir Hugh Munro who was the first person to...