We’re working with Scottish Mountain Rescue to bring you some of the human stories behind the rescue headlines, hopefully giving more insight into what and how things can go wrong in the mountains and the people who volunteer to help. Here Niall tells of his experience after falling through a cornice in poor visibility on Beinn an Dothaidh. Tell us a little bit more about yourself? I am a tour guide based in Edinburgh and a keen hill wallker. I am currently building up my experience on the hills with a view to taking the Mountain Leader course in the…

David Lintern rounds out the weirdest of years with a quiet walk through a multi-storied landscape. Today, I’m hitting the pause button. There’s a brief lull in my schedule that coincides with a break in the weather, a benign day between early winter storms, with slowly clearing skies and a thaw after the first big dump of snow. Maybe even a glimpse of sun? After the year we’ve had, I’ll take it. I’ve long had an eye on a giant cleft on the map, a sort of secret doorway to the plateau of the central highlands. Given the recent access…

We’re working with Scottish Mountain Rescue to bring you some of the human stories behind the rescue headlines, hopefully giving more insight into what and how things can go wrong in the mountains and the people who volunteer to help. Here Fiona Bennett tells of her experience following a serious accident in the Cuillin. Tell me a little bit more about yourself? I am 31 years old, from Glasgow and work as an Accountant for the Scottish Government. My accident happened in 2014 when I was 25. I am a keen hill walker and have been since I was very…

In 1997, at the age of 24, Sarah Jane Douglas lost her mother to breast cancer. Alone and adrift in the world, she very nearly gave up hope, but she’d made a promise to her mother that she would keep going no matter what. So she turned to the beautiful, dangerous, forbidding mountains of her native Scotland. Her book Just Another Mountain was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award last year, and it was a Waterstones Book of the Month.  ‘Which is your favourite mountain?’ is a question I’m frequently asked, but there are so many of outstanding…