walking

This month's Featured Mountaineer, Dougie Strang walks though the North West Highlands of Scotland and encounters the invisible landscape of myth and story that lies beneath the surface

Our vexed relationship with ourselves as nature There is a widespread assumption running through many...

I never stopped walking afterwards. Short distances. Longer distances. Walking words. My own name. The...

Part of me arrived when I saw the skyscrapers – an image I hadn’t expected,...

‘You will see it further south,’ said Vassil, the archaeologist who was letting me sleep...

The second story was even more fantastic. Before there were mountains here – before there...

A deep consciousness of this wildness exists in many of the Romanians I’ve met. They...

Often it’s a good thing to begin a journey with low expectations. Yes, the landscape...

  The sound it made was extraordinary. I had to keep stopping to listen. The...

The Alps, I knew, lay somewhere to my right, but for the past three days...