TGO Magazine

They say that if you haven’t been lost in the Scottish Hills, then you haven’t been to the Scottish Hills, and this is no more apt than in Dr Gerry McPartlin’s book, Friends In High Places. It is unusual to read a story which is so refreshingly honest, and this puts the reader at ease right away with a feeling of shared experience of the hills with all the highs and ...

Going outside and connecting with the natural world looks and means something different to us all. My own connection with nature has particularly grown through my experience of chronic illness. For many years, I haven’t always been able to leave my home. That’s not meant a disconnection with the outside world, even if it has meant a disconnection from the human one.

The Cairngorms feel monstrously huge and oddly familiar at the same time. For many walkers – and I suppose my mother and I too, now – they’re a place of firsts. The first high mountains, the first experience of weather that can switch in minutes, the first time on paths that seem to launch you across seemingly limitless horizons into empty space. Even talking to people that k...

There’s something about ridges – the likes of Crib Goch, Striding Edge, Aonach Eagach, the Cuillin – that speaks to the hillwalking soul. They’re picturesque. They’re eye-catching. They’re a wake-up call for the adrenal glands. And when they aren’t scaring the pants off you, they can actually be quite relaxing. Not too much up and down, very little navigation… you just follow...

Born from necessity on the brutal Atlantic coast, the first Dryrobe® was inspired by a homemade cape that Founder Gideon Bright’s mum sewed to keep him warm during freezing Cornish surf sessions as a teenager. That...