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The Guide
Mountain guide Nick Parks looks back on a lifetime in the high peaks, helping others to enjoy and explore the mountains....
Through The Ragnarök Fires
Hiking the Icelandic Highlands is something that many travellers have done before, but just a few have decided to find what’s beyond the famous trails....
The Forbidden Village
Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent makes a bone-jarring motorbike journey into the out-of-bounds India-Myanmar borderlands to meet the Naga tribes...
The Great British Escape
Aaron Rolph embarks on a UK cycle adventure involving hospital visits, ridge hikes and spring skiing...
For the Love of the Game
Exploring the legacy of Sikander Ul Mulk, legend of the Shandur polo festival at the roof of the world in northern Pakistan – a sporting event that brings people together in the wilderness....
Trash Free Trails
Our trails provide us with endless inspiration, escapism, and adventure. But we only have to look amongst the rich undergrowth to see it is littered with crisp packets, sweet wrappers, and drink bottles....
Reconnection Through Altruism
Helping out with Trash Free Trails to remove litter and pollution from nature, Tom Hill has found a new sense of purpose in his local runs....
Run West
Coastal mining is destroying once-pristine beaches on the West Coast of South Africa. A team of peaceful protestors takes a journey into a devastated landscape as an act of resistance....
The Mountain I Did Not Choose
Suffering from serious injury in a pandemic, an adventurous doctor finds herself facing unusual summits – and learning to find hope and adventure in new places....
No Sleep ‘Til Zermatt
The Haute Route in the Alps dips and climbs for 125km across glaciers, gullies, and national borders, from Chamonix to the Matterhorn. Aaron Rolph attempts to completely the route on skis. In a single push....
Desert Heat and Mountain Storms
Motes of ochre and gold cover our shoes. Grains of sand, millennia old and shaped by wind and water, feel as insubstantial as flour or dust, yet all around us we see towers and walls, hundreds of feet tall, sculpted into wondrous forms from these same grains....
In Search of the Golden Eagle
David Dinsley is the warden of the Oa nature reserve on the Isle of Islay. Here he describes some of his encounters with the island’s enigmatic birds of prey....
Amazing Grace
The Torngat Mountains Nation Park is a land of mountains and polar bears, small glaciers, and caribou. A spectacular wilderness and a place of spirits....
Razed In The Wild
Josh Barringer and Julian Kenchenten face testing terrain, trecherous river crossings and high winds during their attempt to run the North Coast Trail....
Close Encounters
In northern Pakistan, Ana-Maria Pavalache treks the Karakoram mountain range in the Shimshal Valley, on a journey of discovery and encounters with three glaciers, each one special and with a story to be shared....
Kora
Simon Urwin embarks on a three-week journey from the Tibetan tracts of rural Yunnan province, onward to Lhasa, and then across to Everest Base Camp....
Under The White Mountain
Jamie Barnes and Adriana Baez cross the diverse interior of Tenerife on foot, to see the various microclimates formed by the island’s unique topography....
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