Scotland’s longest walking route, the 470-mile Gore-Tex Scottish National Trail, will be officially opened by the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond MSP, on October 30th at the Water of Leith Visitor Centre, Slateford, Edinburgh at 1pm. The trail forms Scotland’s first ever end-to-end walking route through Scotland, from Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders [...]

Exploring Spain by foot, mountain bike, cycle touring or even on water has got easier following an agreement between ViewRanger, the outdoors GPS navigation app and the National Map Authority – Centro Nacional de Informacion Geografica (CNIG).  It is now possible to download topographic maps for the whole of Spain and its Islands on to [...]

Directed by outdoor-filming supremo Alastair Lee, look out for a new advert from Berghaus on your TV screens for the next five weeks. It’ll also be shown during the first week of the new Bond movie Skyfall at cinemas nationwide. The advert features members of the Berghaus global team of athletes including Rob Jarman, Leo Houlding, [...]

Insulation experts PHD have announced the launch of their unique “Design-Your-Own Down Clothing” website. With it you can design and order a customized down jacket, specifying features to fit your plans, and sizing to fit you. With the site you can: Get a down jacket to fit your body shape. Body Length, Body Width, and Arm [...]

The 120 minute programme of the European Outdoor Film Tour 12/13 features 8 short films and documentaries. It tells the stories of adventurers and outdoor athletes whose curiousity is stronger than their fear of the unknown or their own failure: of climbers, slackliners, wingsuit flyers, mountain bikers and snowboarders who live on the edge to [...]

Fancy a weekend away? Planning an impromptu adventure has just got easier thanks to a link-up between LateRooms.com and digital mapping app ViewRanger. With ViewRanger you can access thousands of walking, cycling and riding trails and download these to your phone for use when you are out and about. GPS navigation will keep you on [...]

I love a good ‘living the dream’ story, and the Brazil 9000 expedition sounds like exactly that. Today Aaron Chervenak and Gareth Jones will  begin their attempt to become the first people ever to complete a voyage from Brazil’s most northern point at Caburaí, to its southern extreme at Chuí, covering a distance of over 9000km (5500miles) by foot, [...]

Sir Ranulph Fiennes and his long-time polar companion Dr Mike Stroud will today announce their plan to walk across the Antarctic continent in the polar winter of 2013. No one has attempted such an expedition before, which will take place in total darkness and in temperatures down to minus 90 degrees Celsius. PHD are proud to be official suppliers of Down Jackets, Sleeping Bags, [...]