The Great Outdoors

TGO Magazine is your essential guide to hillwalking and backpacking in the UK and overseas. Get out more! We provide all the inspiration you need to plan your next trip, plus expert reviews and tips. The Great Outdoors is for anyone who loves walking in the hills, mountains and wild places. With information on the latest gear, in-depth features and stunning photography, The Great Outdoors will help you access the high peaks and long trails of Britain and beyond. Our enhanced digital addition includes even more great photos and interactive content.

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IN THIS ISSUE • Meet some of the folk who made this mag…

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TESSA LYONS artist and climber • Tessa expresses her experience of landscape by putting ink and acrylic to paper in the hills

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Your adventures this month

ON THE LOOKOUT • Natural highlights in the hills this month

Adventurer climbs England’s 192 mountains in record time

Dig-and-dump or bag-and-bin? That is the question… • As wild camping spots and routes become even more popular, Mary-Ann Ochota argues that we must stop turning our noses up at the new BMC guidelines for getting rid of our own waste when we ‘go’ outdoors…

BEDDGELERT • Surrounded by steep mountains and Celtic rainforest and steeped in myth and legend, this village, situated at the foot of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), has been drawing outdoor enthusiasts for centuries. Here’s our guide to having the best possible adventurous weekend there…

The Beara Way • Looking for a multi-day hike in a beautiful part of Ireland you might never have heard of? Alex Roddie hikes the Beara Way, finding sandy beaches, colourful villages and rugged peaks

THE BEARA WAY: AT A GLANCE

NEW Book REVIEW

HERGEST RIDGE • Jim Perrin sings the praises of this long, lovely ridge, which has rich connections to the worlds of music and literature

ROAMING FREE IN THE ROUGH BOUNDS • After getting the news she is clear of cancer, Sarah Jane Douglas heads deep into the wild peninsula of Knoydart for a weekend of mountains, camping, packrafting – and a fresh start

HALLOWED GROUND • Most walkers take the ‘easy’ route to the top of Great Gable; but that misses out the best bits of this architecturally spectacular mountain. As part of this special feature looking at Britain’s most unusual paths, James Forrest circles this celebrated Lake District summit via two historic traverses…

7 OF BRITAIN’S MOST WEIRD AND WONDERFUL PATHS • Fancy a quirky hike with a difference, or a route like no other? From maverick mountain trods to ‘Britain’s deadliest trail’, here are seven of our most weird and wonderful footpaths…

WALKING EUROPE’S LAST wild river • Conservationist Katy Ellis walks the length of the Vjosa – the Albanian river recently made Europe’s first Wild River National Park – meeting those who live by it and are helping to save it from environmental exploitation

THE VISCERAL PULL • Alec Forss returned to his beloved Swedish wilds for the first time in two years since becoming a parent. Would the mountains feel different; or would it all come flooding back?

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