As soon as you see the word 'best' in an article title, you know it's going to be contentious, but the Guardian's recent 'world's best walks - by the experts' feature is definitely worth a browse, if only so you can snort in derision

You can forget the trek to Everest Base Camp, the Inca Trail andthe rest of the world's great treks, according to a Country WalkingMagazine survey, the good old Coast to Coast beats 'em all.In fact, in the survey of 'guidebook writers and other

, describes the walk as 'better than Everest with some of the most lovely views you will get anywhere in the world'. There are also six-mile and three-mile walk options for the less hardy, but at the end of the day's walk, all the participants will be able

FilmClimber (2) - Special Mention for Best Short FilmThis Is The Sea 4: New Zealand (48) - Winner of Best Mountain AdventureFilm Committed 2: Walk Of Life (22)Hand Cut (27) - Judges Special MentionNote that the Grand Prize Winner, Al Lee's On Sight

would have been in with a chance.All in all a nice outdoors pressie for Christmas. Hopefully, bynow, Ben Lawers will be back where it belongs mind.... Frontiers - The World's Greatest Walks - £16.99 Ifyou've read the run

tread. Brasher Helium XCRBrasher'snew trail-runner is arguably best suited to trail walking in alightweight style, but is well made with a good, roomy, UK-specific fit. Berghaus Phobic Stable

climbers - but the great thing about the Banff screenings is that they're effectively pre-filtered from the best offerings at the world's biggest and arguably, best, mountain culture jamboree.Thinking about it, what made all the ace films I saw on Saturday

Someone banged the link to this video of the Tasmanian Overland Track onto the comments section at the bottom of the Guardian's recent 'World's Best Walks' article and I had a look out of curiosity and I'm really glad I did.It's not a professional

.While the Berghaus PacLite is a short multi-activity jacket andthe TNF Ama Dablam has mountaineering aspirations, the Aurora is anunashamed walking and trekking jacket that's extremely hard to fault.It's as if every feature has been carefully considered

, there's due to be a 7.5-metreclimbing wall where shoppers can race one another to land£500 worth of Berghaus goodies, Sir Chris will be signingbooks at the Berghaus shop in the Red Mall and comedian Mark Olver ,who recently walked from his home