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My GoOutdoors interview

Author John D Burns talks to us about his reasons for adventure During 2018 GO Outdoors are celebrating the different reasons that we [...]

The night is dark and full of fear Not if you’ve got a bloody great head torch it isn’t. It’s pitch dark as [...]

Download my book free until 12th November Please vote for The Last Hillwalker to be Book of the Year for the Great Outdoors [...]

Listen to part of the Last Hillwalker where John and his companions trek across the Scottish Highlands, find a lake that isn’t there and [...]

June 7, 2017June 7, 2017John D Burns 8

THE PAIN AND THE GLORY The Victorian’s were very fond of big pointy things. So fond, in fact, that they have littered the [...]

Find out more about my book The Last Hillwalker in my new video [...]

After six miles slogging up a mountain track, heading for a bothy, I start to hate my pack. It’s heavy, cumbersome, and expects [...]

March 23, 2017October 13, 2022John D Burns 4

Want to spend a night in your first bothy but not sure how? Here are my top tips for your first bothy. A [...]

April 15, 2016John D Burns 3

‘Where the hell is it?’ I probe the darkness with the fading beam of my head torch searching for the bothy. In the dwindling [...]

April 5, 2016John D Burns 5

Normally, when I’m out in the hills, I don’t worry too much about what the ground beneath my feet feels like. The earth [...]