TrekAndMountain Magazine

It’s easy to forget just how good the Langdale Pikes are. They may seem done-to-death and they certainly can be incredibly popular, but they cram ...

Scottish sounding Langstrath is the most central yet one of the loneliest valleys in the Lake District.It offers a connoisseur’s route to Langdale, ...

A walk around Ben More, a shapely hill sweeping up cleanly from the sea like no other Munro. A picturesque walk with a real chance of spotting ...

A circular route around the Monro Beinn Alligin.TREKM008

A walk of two halves - traverses the higher ridges before returning across the empty limestone plateau.TREKM015

A challenging walk upto the summit of Ben Lommond, Southernmost of all the Munros. TREKM002

The Ring of Steall packs a lot into a modest distance. There's excitement with the famous, or infamous, Steall footbridge and the route passes ...

Pendle Hill is a hill and proud of it; the usual interpretation of its name is Hill-hill Hill, so there should be no dispute to its status.

Tramped by ten thousand school field trips, this route must have awakened many young minds to the wonders of geology. It's a tale of dissappearing ...

Hadrian’s Wall is one of the UK’s best heritage sites and one of the great monuments of the entire Roman Empire. Its attraction to the walker is ...

Away from the main ridge and the peak-baggers, the Carneddau are even less trodden. An approach from the north side, away from the main trade ...

A hike up Ben Macdui. Its location at the heart of the Cairngorm plateau gives it an unmatched sense of isolation. It's the most Artic spot in ...

Climb Snowdon without climbing Snowdon? Hell, yes: fight the compulsion to 'tick' the peak and explore one of the best bits of the massif.

Stiperstones is an oddity, a heathery ridge erupting from the green hills of Shropshire. Ancient, unearthly and unique, it has a presence far ...

The Peak district's gritstone and limestone lend themselves to short, intense rock climbs rather than extended scrambles. Still, there are many ...

A full traverse of the moor, from north to south, is an open invitation to strong walkers; in summer it's possible in a long day but could be even ...

To find such wild and sometimes rugged places so close to a nation's capital is a rare treat. The most popular route in the Pentlands is the ridge ...

High Cup in the North Pennines is a geological marvel and one of England’s finest showpieces of natural sculpture.TREKM024

Dow Crag is the most accessable of the high crags of the Lake District, but the usual dull approach from the Walna Scarr fell gate does it no justice.

The real highlight of the Trail lies further south where the New Red surges up from fat farmland into assertive ridges crowned by castles.

A wonderful trek around Glen Rosa on the Isle of Arran. This is a real challenge to scramblers even when dryTREKM007

The National Forest was initiated around 20 years ago, and already eight million trees have been planted. Its eastern range coincides with ...

The Grey Mare's Tail is a showpiece of a textbook glaciated landscape. It also boasts one of Britain's finest waterfalls and it draws many visitors.

The route tackles Rhinog Fawr from the pass, Bwlch Drws-Ardudwy, between it and Rhinog Fach. The belch can naturally be reached from west or east; ...

Little Stand bristles with outcrops of rough , clean rock; catching all available sun, it’s ideal for the winter months. There’s a walker’s way ...

Gill scrambling might seem like a summer- only pastime (unless full winter conditions allow for an ice axe and crampons) but Borrowdale’s Sour Milk ...

The ridgeway is probably the greatest of all Britain's ancient routes, a relic of the times when valleys were undrained and the drier ridges were ...

The walk is better east to west than west to east - especially when you finish over Arnside Knott instead of straight into the village.

The Isle of Purbeck isn't a true island, but a parcel of land delineated by a chalk ridge on the north and a parallel ridge of harder limestone ...

'Mynydd' is usually translated as 'mountain' but that misrepresents these graceful hills. The ridge invites an easy and obvious out-and-back, but ...

You could run a mile from this manifestly un-wild landscape, or you can embrace its fascinating , if often grim, history. It may not be beautiful ...

A magnificent mountain deserves a magnificent scramble -and this is it. TREKM022

Rhossili’s three-mile sweep of sand has been voted the finest beach in Britain.TREKM017

In Cornwall, they still speak of ‘going to England’; that air of a land apart is nowhere more pronounced than the blunt peninsula of West Penwith ...

Descriptively named for its double summit, The Saddle is that rare thing: a Highland peak without an accepted Gaelic name. Its subsidiary peak of ...

For scramblers, the Stuic is Lochnagar’s classic route. It leads to the subsidiary top of Carn a’Choire Bhoidheach, not the main summit, but ...

A wonderful walk along the front near and around St. Abbs one for the geologist and historian among us.TREKM005

The more northerly is the usual route for walkers, the other is strictly for scramblers. There's certainly no confusion about that, however, there ...

The peak of Snowdon has six named paths as well as a host of other ways. A dviersion by Y Gribin is one of the easiest, one of the quietest and ...

A scramble along the Spur of Sgurr an Fheadain to Bruach na Frithe.TREKM010