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Scotland End-To-End Trail Extract
By Jon on 03/09/2012 14:39:44
Cameron McNeish's Gore-Tex Scotland End-to-End is out shortly, read an extract.
site at www.mountain-media.co.uk/blog/scotland-end-to-end-sample-chapter and very entertaining it is too.
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Scotland To Sink Into Sea Under Weight Of Midges
By Jon on 07/03/2011 12:44:56
Buy a very large flame-thrower now before they carry you off to their mountain fastness and eat ya.
There is ying and there is yang. Seems that Scotland is going to pay for its winter snow cover this summer with an explosion of midges wot The Sun reckons will be '800 times worse than normal'.Apparently the long-lasting early season snow has
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OMM 2011 On Video
By Jon on 02/11/2011 11:07:30
Gentle video footage and stills from this year's Original Mountain Marathon in Scotland.
A nice little atmospheric video by one of the competitors at the 2011 OMM in Perthshire last weekend. We'd like to tell you a lot more about the event, but right now, all we know is that the organisers describe is as 'a resounding success'. Looks damp on the video mind... but no ...
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Mountain Art For Kendal
By Jon on 25/10/2010 11:51:13
Scotland-based hyper-realist mountain art on show as part of Kendal Mountain Festival.
If you're passing through Kendal between Saturday 30 October and Sunday 21 November, drop into the Brewery Arts Centre and check out an exhibition of mountain paintings by Scotland-based artist Jamie Hageman, which is part of the Kendal Mountain
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Video - Dave MacLeod Climbing On Orkney
By Jon on 30/06/2011 12:54:26
Cracking video of ME team climber Dave MacLeod on his successful mission to the Orkney sea cliffs.
It generally takes something slightly extraordinary for a piece of climbing to bust out of the outdoors media ghetto and make it onto more general news coverage, but that's exactly what's happened with Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner's recent first
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Friday Matinee - First Tent In Space
By Jon on 01/06/2012 12:34:10
Inspirational developments in space tourism revealed in this exciting video plus more tent excitement!
inflicts on their innocent tents...But no way would a Decathlon Quechua Base tent survive that, right? Maybe tougher than you thought...And meanwhile, here's what happens in the real world - Alastair Lee in Scotland with an old tent and winds gusting
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Banff Festival World Tour Hits The UK
By Jon on 06/01/2011 11:34:15
Best of the Banff Mountain Film Festival on tour near you from late January 2011.
The 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is likely coming to a cinema near you in the UK soon with over 15 screenings scheduled across England, Scotland and Wales between 28 January and 5 March, 2011.The Banff festival is arguably the world
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25,000-mile Walk For 71-year-old Norrie - Ace!
By Jon on 11/11/2011 13:34:46
Inspirational stuff as Scot covers massive mileage in 12-year challenge - just brilliant...
ft). All of the miles Norrie recorded were covered in Scotland alone.The last stage of his journey, which Norrie completed on 10 November, was the short distance from his home in Rothesay to the Taverna Bar, which culminated in a celebration
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Kendal 2011 Insider Preview - Part Two
By Clive Allen, Kendal Mountain Festival on 21/10/2011 15:22:30
Just a month to go till this year's Kendal Mountain Festicval - Director Clive Allen with the inside track.
the Scottish border to Cape Wrath, and the BBC Scotland series that profiles it. Including exclusive unseen footage.Rab PartyKendal isn’t called “the main social event for outdoor enthusiasts in the UK” for nothing. Over the last three decades it has developed
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