The programme has now been released for this year’s Dundee Mountain Film Festival. The event, to be held on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 November, showcases an international programme of speakers and award winning films and exhibitions. The Festival, in its 27th year, will welcome Catherine Destivelle, the French climbing legend, on her third appearance [...]
A stunning view over the Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye has taken the top prize in this year’s search to find the ‘Landscape Photographer of the Year’. Parisian-born, Emmanuel Coupe becomes the third person to win this prestigious Award and the £10,000 prize. His picture was chosen, by the judges, from [...]
Following on from the success of the last three writing competitions at the Fort William Mountain Festival, the John Muir Trust is running another competition for aspiring writers. With the broad theme of ‘experiences in wild places’, entries could incorporate a journey, a place, an expedition, a mountain or river, a walk, climb, sail or [...]
The Scottish SPCA is appealing to walkers not to approach or touch any seal pups they find on beaches at this time of year. The warning follows the rescue of a newborn grey seal pup found starving on a Fife beach after its mother had been frightened off. The Scottish SPCA said people cause more [...]
Walkhighlands has made the shortlist for this years Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards. Up for Most Entrepreneurial Business, this is a new award for 2009. Also shortlisted in the same category are two of our advertisers. Active Outdoor Pursuits have a base in Newtonmore and offer a great range of activities including mountain guiding and kayaking, whilst Sonas [...]
Following consultations with mountaineering organisations, The Nevis Partnership has completed work on the relocation of the line of stone cairns that traditionally marked the path over the summit plateau of the UK’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis. The relocated cairns now mark the recognised compass bearings that are used by walkers and climbers to navigate off [...]