Rebecca Batley profiles two trailblazing women in mountaineering: Anne Lister and Anne Walker. 188 years ago, Ann Walker - the wife of diarist Anne Lister, Halifax's infamous Gentleman Jack - sat down in the Alps and cried. She had been walking, climbing and riding a...
Paraclimber Jeantique Hommel writes about the development of paraclimbing in the UK, and shares resources for those wanting to get involved. Our community is also rapidly growing and changing. Over the last few years, there have been big changes to the classification criteria that dictate whether or not a climber is eligible to take part in formal national and international paraclimbing competitions. As these rules have become more stringent, many climbers who used to feel welcomed and accepted in these spaces have felt pushed out of the sport. These changes have come at a time when there is more emphasis on the rights and needs of disabled people in society than ever before. And so, disabled climbers from all over the UK have taken matters into our own hands, and created a new type of community that exists outside of the competitive paraclimbing scene. It is one that truly has no bounds.
Alex Outhwaite visits a little-known petroglyph site on Barawatau Mountain, Guyana.
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Military training including live firing takes place in many upland and coastal areas popular with walkers and climbers. The rules on...
Climbers and hillwalkers will be familiar with the outdoor equivalent of range anxiety - the fear that your phone battery will run out before journey's end. These tips and tricks from Rachel Koktava should help you keep your phone going for...
In this episode of Mountain Air we meet highlands-based writer Sarah Jane Douglas, author of the well-received memoir Just Another Mountain. A hill-mad Munroist who's now avidly working through the Corbetts, Sarah is also a regular contributor ...
Dan Aspel meets Colorado-based climber Renan Ozturk to discuss his latest film The Sanctity of Space. The film not only celebrates the stunning landscapes of Alaska, and the film-makers' aesthetic new skyline route across the Moose's Tooth peak, but...
In the third episode of our Mountain Air podcast, Dan Aspel talks with Glen Coe-based runner and climber Keri Wallace, co-founder of Girls on Hills, the UK's only guided hill running company aimed specifically at women. Why are so many female runners...
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