Outdoors stories

The travel brochure displays an idyllic medieval woodland and the facade of a 14th-century castle, so I head off to explore this highly anticipated tourist attraction. ...

It was a charity event at work - our task; scale Ben Nevis. Simple. In many ways it was (for me) not so much for some others though....

I am greeted by a million twinkling stars glistening on the sunlit sea. Blue sky above me, ocean before me, coastal forest behind me, beach sand bene...

I haven’t met a person from Finland who wasn't a genuine, fear-inducing psychopath. When I finished school I worked in a remote gold mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region....

Churning stomach turning to jelly, knees knocking, nausea rising…

I seemed to have been born with an inbuilt fear of heights, as those physical re...

The three children were beside themselves when it was announced that we were going to exchange our home for a tree house for a few days....