Tickets are now available for this year's Dundee Mountain Film Festival starting on the evening of Thursday 27th November and running through to Saturday night. The festival is the UK's longest continuous running mountain film festival. It showcases an international programme of speakers, as well as award winning films and exhibitions, held in Discovery Point, and Bonar Hall, Dundee. 2014 will present two evening programmes on 27th, 28th, and one full day programme on Saturday 29th all featuring films and personal appearances including talks by Karen Darke and Martin Moran. There will also obe a supporting exhibition of art, photography,…

With a keynote talk by well-known writer and broadcaster Cameron McNeish, Mountain Safety Day 2014 will offer a host of demonstrations, displays and instruction available for mountain-goers of all abilities. The free event is organised by the charity Mountain Aid, supported by the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, and aims to promote safe enjoyment of the hills by increasing awareness and giving people access to information, resources and learning and training opportunities. Mountain rescue teams (including SARDA – the Search and Rescue Dog Association), youth organisations such as the Scouts and Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, hill walking and mountaineering clubs…

People who regularly visit their local greenspace are more likely to feel healthy, says a report published by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), but less than half of Scots visit greenspace or the wider outdoors once a week or more. The report's findings show that regular visitors to their local greenspace are more likely to rate their health as good. Also, those rating their health as good are more likely to meet the national guideline for physical activity within an outdoor environment. However over 50% of people reported not visiting any outdoors greenspace in the last week. Greenspaces, such as parks,…

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is advising walkers heading for the hills this Autumn to check ahead for possible deer stalking taking place on estates. The stag stalking season is also a popular time of year for walkers. SNH has launched this year’s Heading for the Scottish Hills service to reduce disturbance during the stag stalking season (1st July to 20th October), by giving walkers information to plan routes away from stalking areas – this information is also available direct on the relevant hill route descriptions on Walkhighlands. Just go to the relevant hill walk description on Walkhighlands and you will…