The Great Outdoors (UK)

Moving mountains

SOMETIMES, GETTING OUTDOORS can feel like moving mountains, especially when you live far away from places in which you feel free – and particularly when England and Wales still have a right to roam on only 8% of our land, much of it in hard-to-reach...

Peaks & Pubs

Mapped Routes from fellside to fireside

Free-range history

HISTORY IS ALL AROUND when you’re hillwalking. It’s in the ancient trading routes, co n trails and Roman highways you follow through the mountains. It’s in the 16thcentury stone walls you use to handrail along, and in the numerous tumuli, barrows and...

CAIRNGORMS KINGDOM

Your Guide navigating Scitlans's Most Unruly national Park (And What Not to Do)

WELCOME Out of thnde ordinary

STORIES ARE EVERYWHERE they tell us who we are, how we got here, what we might be in the future. ey are a navigational aid, just as map and compass are. And with well over 40 pages of stories in every issue, they are what e Great Outdoors is all about....

Actiondis hope

IT SEEMS RIDICULOUS to talk of mountains as vulnerable. ey appear in our art and our idioms as symbols of resilience and permanence – “Grandfather of the Days” for Emily Dickinson; for Percy Shelley “the secret strength of things which governs...

PARADISE ISLANDS

★ Stargazing in Wales ★ Scottish Isle Hopping ★ Strolling on Scilly

MOUNTAIN MILESTONES

★Wake Up to Nature ★ Witness Wildlife ★ Hike Further

BEYOND WILD CAMPING

Escape O -Grid in Britain’s Most Unusual Sleep Spots

Unique Districts

Britain’s 15 Beautiful National Parks (And Why We Need Our Natural Health Service)

WELCOME

IS YOUR OUTDOORS GREAT? Or does it sometimes grate? As we went to press last month, a reader (and friend of Alfred Wainwright) wrote with news of a one-day event on a ‘Wainwright Classic’, hosted by a TV star charging in excess of £200 per ticket. He...

Sharing a joy that transcends...

WOMEN WITH A YEN for the high places haven’t always had an easy time of it. When Lucy Walker became the first woman to ascend the Matterhorn in 1871, the Nuneaton Observer dismissed her achievement in one misogynistic sentence: “Mountain-climbing is no...

Andean Adventures with the Bolivian Cholita Women

Kumano Kodo: Hike Japan’s Pilgrim Trail

A new season

AS I WRITE THIS from a chilly Peak District barn, a shiver takes hold. I’m wrapped in eece and the re is on – early this year – and I wonder with a tinge of worry about the Winter ahead. Do we need to replenish the grit box? Will the cost of heating...

TGO CHALLENGE 2024

SCOTLAND'S UNIQUIE BACKPACKING JOURNEY

Walk a mile in these boots

IT’S FUNNY, the inanimate objects to which we become attached when le to our own devices in nature; that moment when function transitions into something quite beautiful and we imbue these items with a life and meaning of their own. A pair of boots that...

Misplaced Ego on Mount Everest

HOW TO

Move Faster in the Hills Traverse Aonach Eagach (Backwards) Go Hut-to-Hut on the Via Glaralpina Protect Our Nature with Wild Service

Discover the Wildest Range in the Italian Dolomites