Our latest Monday Tip is how to use trekking poles, which sounds obvious, but you'd be surprised at how many walkers are using their poles incorrectly.The idea of the padded wrist loops on trekking poles is to adjust them so that your weight goes

Richard Gear's latest answer is a kit list for an OMer who's off to walk the famous Alta Via 1 high level trekking route across the Italian Dolomites.The route is a 150km multi-day excursion with a high point of 2750 metres and some serious height

, entry-level kit thanks to the store's buying power. The boots are quite basic, but the clothing is fantastic value for money and well worth a look.The range includes trekking boots for men, women and kids made with suede and fabric uppers with a PU

that no less a legend than Reinhold Messner used to wear adidas trekking boots for approach treks in the Himalaya and that the company has huge resources and an impressive arsenal of technical know how to call on.So the Terrex Light has an interesting close cut

towards adventure travel-type articles although there's also some domestic stuff – a feature on classic Snowdonian scrambles for example – and brief kit reviews.To give an idea of what it's all about, the cover feature is a story about 'trekking peaks

turned up and they do look interesting. Don't forget that while most people don't realise it, adidas does actually have form in the outdoors, Reinhold Messner actually wore a pair of the brand's trekking boots when he walked in to Everest for his first

.Then there was an emergency beacon that slots onto a trekking pole and a neat combined body armour and hydration gilet for snowsports use. But the winner was the design the judges felt was the most rounded and practical of the projects, a design for women's soft shell Winter

win a trekking holiday to Nepal along with £500 of Berghaus gear in an introductory competition.You can find the new Berghaus web site at www.berghaus.com.

in advance.Which is where the increasing availability of foreign digital mapping from UK specialists is revolutionising the travel and trekking experience - the likes of Satmap, Anquet, Memory Map and Quo now offer a range of popular foreign maps, so you can

, but transplant the wearer to Lukla and...Let's just say that I could smell the new arrivals with their clean trekking pants, newly washed armpits and moisturised, exfoliated faces from at least 20 yards away. Of course the effect is temporary, two days down