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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Over high mountain passes in Tajikistan
An off-the-beaten-track trip in the little-visited Fann Mountains, camping alongside pristine azure lakes and trekking through rocky valleys and high passes.
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Sea kayaking around Ardnamurchan
Chris and Martin pack the kayaks and paddle around the Ardnamruchan peninsula ticking off wildlife and breathtaking views along the way
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Trekking the Karakoram
For the first time since lockdown, Tom Richardson led a group on a KE Adventure Travel trekking expedition to the Karakoram. The team attempted to cross the Gondogoro La in the Karakoram mountain range, taking in spectacular views of Great Trango, K2 and Masherbrum along the way. 1. Flight from...
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The Pennine Way – the ‘right’ way
Chris Harle tackles heavy weather, stalking bulls and 400km of Long Distance Footpath from Edale in the Peak District, to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders
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The Devil's Castle: climbing the Irish West Coast
We were in Ireland for four full days and despite the variable weather we achieved most of what we hoped for, including the first ascent of a sea-stack called the Devil's Castle.
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Wild Horse 200 - South Wales Ultra
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four? When the Beatles released this song in 1967, I was just 9 years old...now that I’m sixty-four I couldn’t help wondering about how sensible it was to attempt a non-stop multi-day ultra-running race?
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Outside Hope Valley Twice Round
The Outside Hope Valley Round is a twenty mile circuit of the ridges surrounding the Hope Valley, dreamt up by Outside and sponsored by Montane. Just to see if he could, our friend Jeremy attempted a double round in November. I’d run a clockwise loop of the Hope Valley Round...
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Wild Horse 200
My 2021 attempt to complete the Dragon’s Back Race begs the question whether it is unfinished business and if I would try it again? As the 2022 race dates conflicted with a climbing trip to Lundy, what about 2023? From experience I knew that only total commitment to training would...
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An Adventure in the Fann Mountains of Tajikistan
“An adventure in the What Mountains of Where?“ Tajikistan is a country in Central Asia - the Fann Mountains reach to 5489m, so it's bigger by some measure than the Alps
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Changing Times
Tom reflects on 35 years in the Karakorum mountains A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be sitting on a rock on the moraine of the Baltoro Glacier, below Broad Peak, in the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan. Broad Peak (8047m) is situated near K2 (8611m) but as it...