Kev Mitchell: Scottish Mountain Rescue | Podcast August 17, 2024August 17, 2024John D Burns Kev Mitchell talks about the vital work of Scottish Mountain Rescue. [...]
Henry Iddon & Max Leonard: Mountain Style | Podcast August 5, 2024August 5, 2024John D Burns 1 Everyone who explores the outdoors has a special relationship with their clothing. A cagoule can keep you safe in a storm, a duvet [...]
Kat Hill: Bothy | Podcast July 3, 2024July 3, 2024John D Burns John D. Burns talks to Kat Hill about her new book, Bothy, and her delight in these remote shelters. The pace at which [...]
Mick Conefrey: Fallen – George Mallory | Podcast May 2, 2024May 2, 2024John D Burns It is almost 100 years since climbers, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, vanished into the clouds high on Mount Everest and were never [...]
Harold Raeburn – The Steps of a Giant: Peter Biggar | Podcast April 13, 2024April 26, 2024John D Burns Harold Raeburn is acknowledged as the father of Scottish mountaineering. At the dawn of the twentieth century he was pushing the boundaries of [...]
Diversity in the outdoors: Jon Barton | Podcast March 15, 2023March 15, 2023John D Burns Jon Barton, who runs Vertebrate Publishing, talks about how new guidebooks and new technology is encouraging more people with a wide range of [...]
Hannah Francis: Fort William Mountain Festival | Podcast December 9, 2022December 9, 2022John D Burns From small beginnings Fort William Mountain Festival has become one of the biggest celebrations of outdoor activities in the UK. Now there’s a [...]
Andrew Terrill: On Sacred Ground | Podcast October 11, 2022October 11, 2022John D Burns Listen to Andrew Terrill talking about his 7,000 mile walk across Europe and his new book On Sacred Ground. Andrew spent 18 months [...]
Ian Carter: Rhythms of Nature | Podcast July 20, 2022July 22, 2022John D Burns Ian Carter talks on Outdoors in Scotland podcast about how contact with nature is so important to all our lives. [...]
The Cobbler an Iconic Mountain | Blog June 23, 2022June 29, 2022John D Burns Gerry McGarry talks about one of his favourite mountains, The Cobbler. [...]