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Glen Roy – A Parallel World
GLEN Roy is the place that thwarted Darwin. That’s Charles Darwin – the man who turned conventional knowledge on its head with his revelation that our ancestors emerged from the sea, not the Garden of...
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And Finally, Lujar . . . Finally
McEff climbs Sierra de Lujar. It's his fourth attempt . . . Continue reading →
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High Cup – And the Rise and Fall of Belfast Sinks
Don't ever, ever, ever, say the slog from Cow Green to High Cup is devoid of interest . . . Continue reading →
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Rookhope: A Reminder of Who We Are
WEARDALE is a Pennine valley that has the footprints of industry stamped all over it. It has no pretentions and shows no inclination to tidy itself up. That’s why it appeals to me so much . . ....
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A Blackpowder Blast From the Past
IUSED to blow up huge chunks of Cumbrian hillside for a living. I stopped doing it not through any regard for conservation or the environment, but because I’d noticed that none of my more senior...
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Mud: It’s Alive and Sticking
MUD. Don’t go there except with your feet. Let it fill your boots and stick like it’s supposed to. But don’t delve any deeper unless you want a shovelful of acronyms . . . Back in November I set out …...
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Forever Changing – Broad Majestic Duddon
A walk along the shifting sands of the Duddon estuary . . . Continue reading →
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Sutton Bank, Witches and Featherless Geese
A walk along the Cleveland Way from Sutton Bank . . . Continue reading →
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Thirty Years On – Cwmorthin Revisited
From one side of a Welsh mountain to another – underground and overground . . . Continue reading →
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Manod and Mysteries, Earth and Environment
Underground bunkers in the Welsh mountains . . . Continue reading →
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Above Bethesda – Ancient and Modern
TO the south-west of Bethesda an open moor rises towards the clouded heights of Elider Fawr and Mynedd Perfedd. It’s a wild place dotted with occasional ruins and sheepfolds and crossed by indistinct...
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Mourne Mountains: Slieve Binnian and Second Impressions
Northern Ireland's best-kept secret – the mountains of Mourne . . . Continue reading →
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The Long Surrender: Brandy Bottle Incline
THIS is an account of a short walk in the hills above Arkengarthdale – but it has a back story that begins in the early 1980s and involves a group of mine explorers and an elusive portal into the...
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Plodding over Pinnel – In the Rio Guadalfeo
THE Rio Guadalfeo flows from the Sierra Nevada mountains through steep-sided valleys to the Mediterranean at Salobreña. I’ve gazed down upon its course from the winding mountain road to Orgiva many...
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Arkengarthdale and the Hungry Hushes
IT’S midday and a storm warning has been issued by the Met Office. I’ve just set off across the northern spur of Reeth High Moor and can expect gale-force winds and up to 40mm of rain. The valley...
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Going to California . . . Via Teesdale
HISTORY has not been kind to the Pennine valley of Hudes Hope. On a sunny morning in March its lesser scars can be mistaken for natural wounds and warts on the landscape. But there is no disguising the...
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Days Like This, No 5: Ireland’s Deep Secrets
DAWN breaks over Belfast. A van and a minibus rattle through the city and head down the main road towards Dublin, stopping only at the cross-border road block on the hills above Newry where a British...
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Black Combe – On the Edge of a Circle
LIFE flows in curves that turn into circles. Even things that should be permanent are part of a cycle. Today I’m walking along the shores of the Duddon estuary with a dog and a granddaughter. I’ve been...
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Green Hurth: Where the Big Wheel Turns
TODAY I have a mission. This is no ordinary walk into the Pennine hills. This is a voyage of discovery to a lonely place where ingenious and industrious men built wondrous machines. And ingenious men...
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Humber. Southeasterly Four. Moderate or Good. Rain later.
SPURN Head is one of those places everyone has heard of but few can pinpoint on a map. When you’ve got your bearings it’s easy to find – but that could also be said of Kafia Kingi and Amelia Earhart. …...
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