With spring firmly sprung, and the hills beckoning, what better time to get kitted out with a brand new pair of lightweight hiking boots to head off to the mountains in? Well, enter this week’s TrekandMountain.com competition and you could be the proud owner of a spanking new pair of Teva Raith Mid eVent boots, worth £110! The nice folks …
Girls of Everest, part 3
Over the last few days we’ve been featuring some of the young British women heading to the Himalayas this season to attempt to climb Everest, and today we speak to the most ambitious of them all, 18-year old Leanna Shuttleworth. Leanna will be attempting this April to become the first woman ever to summit two 8000m peaks in 24 hours, …
Girls of Everest, part 2
This week we’re featuring some of the young women who are hoping to make their names on Everest this year, and after we spoke to Becky Bellworthy yesterday, it’s time to speak to 21-year old Mollie Hughes, who is leaving for Nepal at the end of this month. So what inspired Mollie to want to climb Everest? “I’ve been hooked …
Girls of Everest, part 1
This spring sees an unprecedented number of young, British females attempting to climb and break records on Everest. Over the next few days, we will be talking to three of the young women in question, and also getting some comments from the girl whose record they are trying to break, T&M’s own Bonita Norris. We start with 20-year old Beck …
Signed Everest paintings auctioned for charity
A 25-strong team from St. James’s Place Wealth Management will be trekking to Everest Base Camp in early April, raising funds for their Company Foundation, which has so far made grants in excess of £20 million over the last 20 years. As part of the fund-raising efforts, an Aberdeenshire-based artist, Peter Goodfellow, was commissioned to paint two paintings of Everest, …
'Lost World' success for Houlding team
Leading British adventurer Leo Houlding has just returned from a successful expedition to the depths of the Amazonian jungle in Venezuela. Houlding, along with his close knit team of climbers and local fixers, and expedition film maker Alastair Lee, took on the complex and ambitious journey to make a first ascent on Cerro Autana (1400m), one of the Amazon’s most …
New website for explorers
“There’s an explorer in all of us,” says Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and the brains behind new website Explorers Connect are hoping to provide a forum and meeting place for adventure-minded people everywhere. The site is the brainchild of television director Belinda Kirk, who also holds a Guinness world record as part of the first all-women crew to row unaided around …
Mammut's new year-round boot
Mammut have announced a new boot that is suitable for year-round walking, scrambling and via ferrata use. The Mt Centry and Mt Centrina (women’s version) use a combination of nubuck and synthetic leather as well as Dropstop textile to achieve a very tough boot. The boots are rated B1 which means they should have enough flex to allow the wearer …
Conquer a mountain for WaterAid
International charity WaterAid is calling on walkers and climbers to don their boots and take on the UK’s and Ireland’s best mountains to raise vital funds for some of the world’s poorest people. On Saturday 16 June 2012 the charity’s brand new mountain challenge event, the WaterAid 200, aims to put a team on the top of the 200 best …
Cocona hiking socks launched
Target Dry have announced the launch of a new range of hiking/trekking socks that use cocona as part of the fabric mix. The Walk Lite and Hike Lite are the first two models in the Xtreme range of socks, with an all-season sock – the Trek Comfort – due later in the year. All models use a blend of merino …