Updated: What's So Special About The Black Cuillin Of Skye?

Updated: What's So Special About The Black Cuillin Of Skye?

Well, how long have you got? This paragraph from the introduction of the Skye & The Hebrides guidebook sums it up: If you love mountains then you will almost certainly love the Cuillin. A marriage between rock, water and sky, these are mountains unique in their ambience and configuration. A classic and near perfect horseshoe provides the finest ridge traverse in Britain, whose flanks give a host of climbs on some of the finest rock imagineable.

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What's Not To Love About Home-Made Hill Food?

What's Not To Love About Home-Made Hill Food?

[GUEST POST] There has never been a better time to be baking. Be it bread, brownies, flapjacks or anything else you feel like throwing together and putting in the oven, baking is a way of being creative, providing an ideal opportunity to share your inventions with others, both on the hill or left on the doorstep of your neighbour alike.

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What's So Special About The Black Cuillin Of Skye?

What's So Special About The Black Cuillin Of Skye?

Well, how long have you got? This paragraph from the introduction of the Skye & The Hebrides guidebook sums it up: If you love mountains then you will almost certainly love the Cuillin. A marriage between rock, water and sky, these are mountains unique in their ambience and configuration. A classic and near perfect horseshoe provides the finest ridge traverse in Britain, whose flanks give a host of climbs on some of the finest rock imagineable.

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The Arc'teryx photo shoot: what it was all for

The Arc'teryx photo shoot: what it was all for

In May I worked with Canadian photographer, Jordan Manley, on a photo shoot linked to the opening of the new Arcteryx shop in London (see previous blog posts from 20th May, 4th July, and 15th July). I was able to make a detour on my journey home from the Alps to be at the grand opening on 3rd September, where Jordan gave a presentation of our grand tour of the British Isles. You can read a transcript of Jordan's presentation here...

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