“Most of the time we are floating off Mexico’s west coast”
5th May 2020
In the latest of our lockdown stories, Brian Laird describes what it’s like being an outdoors lover stranded at sea.
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When lockdown lifts, how will we go back to the outdoors?
4th May 2020
From avoiding a “mad rush” to the hills, to developing PPE that works for mountain rescuers, returning to the outdoors after lockdown could be complicated. We spoke to some the organisations wrestling with the challenges – and possible solutions.
Lockdown stories: “our mountains are free of human presence”
30th April 2020
We’ve featured lockdown stories from hill walkers self-isolating in tower blocks and city-centre flats, but what’s it like living in one of the mountainous regions we’re all yearning to get to? Kirstie Smith reports from Arran.
What I learned from walking around the world
27th April 2020
Tom Fremantle has spent the last year-and-a-half hiking across the world. Now, grounded by lockdown, he shares what he’s learned about the ‘absolute joy’ of walking.
Opinion: I don’t want to go back to ‘normal’ after lockdown ends – do you?
23rd April 2020
According to a new poll, fewer than 9 in 10 Britons want to return to their pre-lockdown lives. Hillwalker Hanna Lindon asks what the ‘new normal’ might look like.
Lockdown stories: “I turned the kitchen into a bird hide”
22nd April 2020
He might be locked down in a top-floor Glasgow flat, but Mark Connelly has found an incredible way of bringing the outdoors indoors.
Lockdown stories: “With no work to focus on I feel like I’ve lost my direction”
20th April 2020
Freelance guide Vicky Inglis is spending lockdown living in a caravan on the Aberdeenshire coast. Here, she talks about the insecurity of being self-employed during the coronavirus crisis.
Lockdown stories: “The stairs have become my gym and my hills”
17th April 2020
In the latest of our lockdown stories, mountaineer Paul Devaney reveals how he’s training for an upcoming expedition using the stairwell of his apartment building.
Trekking through Peru’s high-altitude heaven
16th April 2020
Peru’s Cordillera Huayhuash is a spectacular domain of tropical glaciers, turquoise lakes and soaring condors; but the future of trekking there, as Peter Elia discovers, is uncertain.
Lockdown story: “My nomadic existence was now considered illegal”
15th April 2020
In this series we’ll be sharing unusual, inspirational and remarkable lockdown experiences from hikers across the country. Here, wild camping nomad Stuart Shipp describes how lockdown threatened to make his lifestyle illegal – until a timely message from a friend…