CLIMBS ETC

It's a joy to catch the first bright weekend in April. But would you spend it pondering on the last journey of the dead?

Follow the Sarsen Way to Adam's Grave to find out. See an astonishing late Stone Age barrow. Shiver at the ghosts of Saxon warriors on a...

Yes we can, whatever we believe or don't believe. As long as we're walking or hiking to enrich our lives and hoping for something extra...

A wild swim high on the Fiz. A remote, intriguing hut-to-hut hike. Oh! And the flowers... Lac d'Anterne, the ramparts of the Fiz behind A...

Nanjizal and the Song of the Sea... The sands shift around our coasts. Shapes on our beaches can change from one tide to the next. The...

Don't miss the goodies on the lower shelf. Ffynnon Lloer. If you are staying at Idwal Cottage in the Ogwen Valley, your most obvious...

From nothing to not much. Or is it? Maybe, there are secrets here. This is the story of a mysterious bridge in the middle of nowhere....

It is early morning and already hot. It is early morning and snowflakes are getting in my face. It is early morning and there is a whiff...

I was thinking about how when I was 19 years old I hiked with my brother to the edge of Venezuela's Gran Sabana and climbed Mount...

This fellow is 5,600m up on the Khardong pass in Ladakh. He is seated on a dzo. It is about 1925. What draws him here? "The sight of...

Once more, we did the February meet at the Black Sail YHA hut. If you read on you will find a cautionary tale about what not to do in the...

You are walking back from the ancient imperial capital of Japan, Kyoto, to the new city of the Shoguns, Edo, which will become the Tokyo...

Down at the bottom of the Kii peninsular, a good distance south of Kyoto, you will find ranges of pine clad hills, tiny tumbledown...