How to go light for scrambling.
For me scrambling is about flow and freedom, unencumbered by heavy loads and unwieldy techniques, covering airy ground absorbed in the...
When mountains are tourist attractions.
Let's start with the now legendary Trip Advisor review. It goes like this: "Very Steep and Too High". After going up Mount Snowdon by...
Electronic rescue devices in the mountains, yes or no?
In the mid 1990s, before the mobile phone boom, there were some who considered the adoption of this technology as a piece of safety kit...
Abseil tat or litter?
Scottish, scrambles, climbs and mountaineering routes are fiercely free from fixed anchors, bolts, rings, steel stancheons or any manner...
To Intervene or Not to Intervene?
My client and I looked at each other, this was a classic situation that many regular hill goers will recognise. A couple, one partner...
Best Bits of Kit: Osprey Mutant 28 review
Near perfect functionality and design in outdoor equipment is an ephemeral thing: what works for one user lacks for another, what sells...
Ten Tips for Free
Life hacking refers to any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life....
An uphill skier
What? Well, you can ski down hill, across and along them. But you can also ski up them. This means that you can go on long journeys away...
Cuillin Edit 2015
This is a couple of minutes of footage of my summer working in the Cuillin of Skye for the legendary Skye Guides. Many thanks to Kevin...
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