Ice and Running Water
When the author Nan Shepherd was walking the Cairngorms in the 1940s, she once dedicated an entire day to studying the ice […]
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Following Nan Shepherd up Creag Dhubh
Creag Dhubh is the first hill Scottish writer Nan Shepherd climbed on her journey into the Cairngorms, described in her book The […]
The Winter that Was
Here in the Cairngorms, Winter has put on quite the show. I know it might not be over. There is probably more […]
Two-Book Deal For Merryn Glover’s Cairngorms
Friends and faithful readers of Writing the Way, I cannot tell you how happy I am to share this news with you. […]
Loch Etchachan & Ben MacDui: A Cairngorms Photo Story
Living by the Spey, most of my walks into the Cairngorms are from the north-western side, such as the one to Angel’s […]
The High Tongue
It’s the Cairngorms Nature at Home Big 10 Days! This WAS going to be the Cairngorms Nature Big Weekend and I WAS […]
Map Gazing
Do you love maps? I find them fascinating, so when I was invited by Walk Highlands to write an article about what […]
Return to Fishtail Mountain
My head is still in the Himalayas. Two weeks ago, I shared about my childhood in Ghachok, a village in the mountains […]
Under Fishtail Mountain
Ghachok village sprawls across a sloping plateau below Machapuchare – Fishtail Mountain – one of the most striking in Nepal. At the […]
Winter Worryland
From the comfort of my sofa in a warm living room, I have just booked myself onto my first ever mountain winter […]