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Sleeping under a camping tarp is a magical and minimalist experience. Unlike a tent, which cocoons you from the environment behind twin layers of the inner and flysheet, a tarp leaves you gloriously open to the landscape. The golden dusk light is unfi...

Let’s play a game... Picture this scene and imagine where it is: a narrow, snaking trail, slightly rocky underfoot, lined with trees. It bends left, then right, travels up, then down. The air is a fresh as cut grass, the ground soft underfoot, and birdsong fills the air. You think you’re in the middle of the countryside, don’t you? A huge, spacious chunk of hillside f...

The category of ‘backpacking rucksacks’ covers a whole spectrum of different packs. The Gregory Baltoro sits very much at one end of that spectrum, where the engineering is unapologetically elaborate, the feature list is unapologeti...

Everything in the hills – past, present and future – comes back to the rock.

Get to know this and you can read into a history of ancient seabeds and giant fuming volcanoes, or look forward to predict the habitat that will grow there and the animals that will roam it. On a rainy day, you can guess whether it will be slick as ice or grippy as sandpaper.<...

Imagine you’re threading your way through the high passes above Chamonix during one of the iconic UTMB races.

Maybe you're tackling the rugged Lake District fells on the legendary Montane Lakeland 50. Or perhaps you're weaving your way along the exposed Cornish coastline during the Arc of Attrition, with Atlantic waves crashing below and another marath...