Staff Blogs
Tall tales from the outdoors. Outside staff are often to be found running over moors, trekking up mountains and climbing up everything from high mountains to Stanage boulders. Occasionally they'll even be caught squeezing under mountains, and every year at least two of them will find some way to climb a frozen Kinder Downfall.
When we can persuade them to stop moving for long enough, we get them to write it all down and share some of the photos they've taken. Welcome to the Outside staff blogs.
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Walking the Pennine Way in a lockdown
The Pennine Way is the legendary 431km (268 miles) National Trail pioneered by Tom Stephenson of the Ramblers Association that stretches along the backbone of England into Southern Scotland. It begins just up the road from the Outside shop, in the village of Edale in Derbyshire, and it concludes at the northern... -
All change on the Daxueshan range
Trekking in Sichuan China
In the Autumn of 2019, I led my 4th trekking expedition to the Minya Konka Massif, in the Daxueshan Range in Sichuan China. It is a part of the world that is experiencing rapid changes on several fronts. Like all mountain areas, climate change is altering the weather patterns and taking its toll on the glaciers. Continue reading
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West Greenland Expedition - glacier research trip
This August 2019, Outside staff member Jo Zanker and 10 other students travelled to west Greenland as part of the University of Sheffield Polar and Alpine Change MSc course. This is the story of the expedition and her experience on the glacier, together with some spectacular photos. West Greenland Research Expedition Our two...