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Share If you want to play, you need to protect. It’s that simple. We are in a no fall zone when it comes to climate change, and we need to focus. The UK is hosting the UN climate negotiations this November, and it’s going to be the biggest international conference the UK has ever held. It’s also been claimed that it’s the most important COP since Paris in 2015. So, what is COP? Why should you care about it? “What is COP? Why should you care about it?” I know our community loves a bit of unique language and phrases. They are embedded into our various communities, words like stoked, sandbagged, railed etc, and we need to learn a few more so that we can understand the system and use it to our advantage to save the outdoors. ....
We speak to Doug Gilbert from Trees for Life about locking down in a wild forest & how important it is to restore native woodland to Scottish uplands. ....
Looking to venture out onto steeper terrain? We've got 8 tips to make the steep turn a stress-free affair, whether you're skiing in Scotland or going further afield. ....
Share When, in 1982, Chamonix mountain guide Jean Franck Charlet left the steep skiing capital of the world in the middle of winter, he wasn’t heading to the Greater Ranges for an unskied Himalayan line. No, he was heading to Scotland to sample some of the finest steep skiing in the world. On Ben Nevis. Helped by the late, great Hamish MacInnes, Jean Franck had hoped to film the spectacle live for the BBC. While Jean Franck’s BBC documentary was a washout, the guide established a first descent down Good Friday Climb; a hair-raisingly steep climbing route that, quite literally, falls off the north face of Ben Nevis. ....