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ANIMALS COPE with Winter in different ways. Hedgehogs curl up, badgers slow down, squirrels make use of the acorns they’ve been hoarding like neurotic little doomsday preppers. Some birds escape the cold weather entirely by making the arduous journey

THE TERM ‘EMERGENCY KIT’ does sound a bit dramatic, but out in the hills far from the nearest road the most minor problem can find itself amplified into a real danger. I had a reminder of this as I prepared to finish writing up my own test of emergen

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SNOWFLAKES WHIPPED around me, lit up by my head torch in a dazzling and disorientating explosion of chaos. I brushed the frost off my compass with a clunky gloved hand so I could see the needle more clearly. In the wild, snowy darkness, my range of v

“PULL HARDER! PULL HARDER!” The rope burns in my hands as my grip tightens. I look into my friend’s eyes. They are wide with determination, and she too refuses to let go. Snow is falling in big, chunky flakes, making it hard to navigate more than a f

AS SOON AS I BREAK OUT above the cloud inversion, I feel the warmth of the sun on my face. The air could not be more still, and a blue haze is setting in over the distant hills of Lochaber. I start to sweat as I reach my first Munro summit of the day

FROM THE AGE OF THREE, Ana Norrie-Toch danced ballet and jazz, dance styles, which instilled in her a “hyper-awareness” of her body in an environment that kept Ana “disconnected” from herself. The constant presence of the mirror and the aesthetic exp

“The snow on the mountains in South Wales usually doesn’t last long, so I take every opportunity to hike up high and photograph the beautiful range when it’s blanketed in winter. On this occasion, I checked my apps and saw that there was a good chanc

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THEY’RE QUITE DIFFERENT to any other Welsh hills, these vast and sprawling heights between Dyffryn Ogwen and Nant Conwy. This is the largest block of land above 3000 feet south of the Cairngorms, and they share a remoteness and difficulties of approa