1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1354+ words) Scottish mountains are often tucked away, miles up a glen, meaning that just getting to them can be an epic walk in itself. Mount Keen isn’t, as its name suggests, eager to express itself. This mountain likes to take things…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1568+ words) The Inov8 TRAILFLY V2 continues the Lake District-based brand’s long tradition of making trail running shoes that work far better than they look. To my eye, this still isn’t a handsome shoe, but Inov8 has never needed polish to justify its place on…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1142+ words) For over three decades, Sea to Summit has been helping adventurers travel further and pack smarter, with thoughtfully designed gear that's been tested everywhere from the world's highest mountains to its remotest coastlines. But while the brand is a global…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (379+ words) Can just 20 minutes of running boost your mood and your brain power? You bet it can! And we’re not just saying that because we like nothing better than to head off-road for an hour or so. In fact, researchers at…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (585+ words) My dining companion and I arrived on a pleasant day in early summer, and immediately we were struck by the timeless elegance of Liathach’s setting. The original architect, Lewisian Gneiss, included two separate dining establishments of Spidean a’ Choire Leith…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1276+ words) "It was 30 times harder than I could have imagined when I started at St Paul’s – I just had no idea.” “It’s just days and days without a single hint of a path,” he recalls. “And the cliffs go right down…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1919+ words) It’s often said of show-offs that they suck all the oxygen from a room. Craving attention above all else, they drag the centre of gravity towards them, leaving anyone else in the vicinity to wonder if they actually exist at…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1734+ words) The Danner MTN45 Low is a modern hiking shoe with one foot in the brand’s leather-boot heritage and the other somewhere much closer to trail-running territory. It has the sturdy, old-school look of a traditional Danner hiker, but underfoot it’s much…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1600+ words) On the northern shore of the Mawddach estuary sits the bustling town of Barmouth. Directly behind this ever-popular west coast spot, something geologists describe as an ‘anticlinal structure’ starts to emerge, getting ever bigger and higher the further north you…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (802+ words) It quickly became one of my favourite pieces of hiking kit. The combination of a long-sleeved top, integrated hood and thumb loops delivered excellent coverage without ever feeling restrictive (like you sometimes get with hiking shirts). In hot weather it…...