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Reeks District: Ireland’s Adventure Playground with Jessie Leong

‘How do you pronounce Carrauntoohil?’ ‘Karen-toole’ replied Piaras, mountain guide from Kerry Climbing. ‘It means inverted sickle, a serrated knife-edge. Just look at the ridge behind you.’
December 03, 2018

Reeks District: Ireland’s Adventure Playground with Jessie Leong

‘How do you pronounce Carrauntoohil?’ ‘Karen-toole’ replied Piaras, mountain guide from Kerry Climbing. ‘It means…

Outdoor Guides

Ease your way into wild camping

Ask an American about wild camping and the chances are they'll tell you all about pulling up next to a lake in their 40ft RV and surviving with just a…
May 21, 2014

Ease your way into wild camping

Ask an American about wild camping and the chances are they'll tell you all about…
May 12, 2026

A Beginner’s Guide to Wild Camping

Wild camping has a particular appeal because it strips things back to literal basics. There’s no reception block, no neat row of pitches and no hum of other people’s evenings just beyond the hedge.
August 08, 2022

A journey of meaning

In a little over three weeks, I’ll be stood on a railway platform in Cheshire waiting for a train and the start of an 8000km adventure. Over the following 18…
July 20, 2020

Wild camping - a fight or flight dilemma

Over the last couple of months there's been countless column inches in the mainstream media devoted to "wild camping", and none of it has been good.
December 22, 2019

Skin Up to and Ski Off the Cairngorm

For a while now I have wanted to ski tour, finally I managed to get the gear together to be able to! So I headed for the Cairngorm, I had…
August 15, 2019

Albert and being Sustainable.

What connects a tiny patch of snow in Scotland to a Blackpool pub and landslides in the Alps? Henry Iddon pulls the threads together in a guest Editorial on sustainability.
July 17, 2019

The post-industrial landscapes of Snowdonia's slate industry are being re-imagined as a leisure resource

For a period of over 150 years the landscape of Snowdonia, and particularly the western side from Bethesda to Blaenau Ffestiniog was dominated by a brutal, industrial, visage of dark…
December 03, 2018

Reeks District: Ireland’s Adventure Playground with Jessie Leong

‘How do you pronounce Carrauntoohil?’ ‘Karen-toole’ replied Piaras, mountain guide from Kerry Climbing. ‘It means inverted sickle, a serrated knife-edge. Just look at the ridge behind you.’
Alan Hinkes

Alan Hinkes

Thursday, 14 May 2026 11:16

Alan Hinkes recalls Everest 30 years on

Thirty years ago, I stood on the summit of Mount Everest, 8,848 metres above sea level. For a moment, no one on the planet was higher than me.

K2 The Savage Mountain 30 years on…This year is the thirtieth anniversary of my ascent of K2 in July 1995.

Dufton Pike & Murton Pike are two prominent outliers clearly seen from the A66 en route to the Lakes.

It is 8000 miles away and yet it feels like the UK. The Falkland Islands takes the best part of 24 hours to get there on the ‘Air Bridge’ from RAF Brize Norton and yet it feels like Britain.

Friday, 05 July 2019 08:55

Lake District Bouldering

My first impression is wow what an impressive tome. This substantial book is clearly a labour of love, with loads of dramatic action photos as well as photos of boulders and mini crags annotated with the many routes.

What’s not to like about Chamonix or Cham as it is affectionately known and it holds plenty of good memories for me as a hard core mountain climbing and skiing base. So joining an Inghams Summer Chamonix Adventure Holiday was a pleasant contrast to suffering above Cham on the slopes of Mont Blanc in a blizzard.