The Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon takes place on 29th May each year. It started in 2003, the brain child of Bikram Pandey of Himex Nepal, to mark the historic first ascent of Everest in 1953. It attracts an international gathering of proper serious mountain runners ...plus me. Continue reading
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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Marathon Des Sables - Equipment and Logistics for a Multi-Day Desert Race
Outside Guest Blog: Wes Cole offers an expert guide to the gear and logistics needed to tackle the Marathon des Sables, one of the world's most gruelling ultra races.
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Wainwright’s Coast to Coast to Conclusion
When I previously wrote about our west to east walk following the route invented by the legendary guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright from Coast to Coast, we had reached the lovely market town of Richmond in North Yorkshire on 8th October 2020. Progress was halted shortly afterwards by the current governments’...