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Sunday, 8th November 2009

Outdoors

Walk of the week: The Lairig Ghru and Chalamain Gap THE Lairig Ghru is one of those places that inspires awe, excitement and a little fear whenever the name is mentioned. An ancient drovers' road between Strathspey and Braemar, it passes through inhospitable country with mountains on both sides.

Roger Cox: Solo climber Kevin Shields single-handedly raises the stakes in the climbing world One of the most compelling films at this year's Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival was Single Handed, directed by Paul Diffley and starring top Scottish climber Kevin Shields. Not only has the 31-year-old completed some of the most difficult ascent

Once it was barren moorland, now the Carrifran valley is home to thousands of trees Philip and Myrtle Ashmole and I are standing within a circular dry-stane sheep bucht, gazing up the valley of the Carrifran burn, about eight miles north-east of Moffat. I last interviewed Philip here ten years ago, when the view was of a typical Southern Upland glen, elegantly scooped out by the last glaciers and scoured bare since then by millennia of grazing.

A day at the world's biggest indoor climbing arena - the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena - leaves everyone feeling on top of the world Get off that, come down from there...". Ever since, at the tender age of five, she got her head stuck in our second-floor stair railings my now 11-year-old niece Brogan has been trying to climb everything in sight. So I knew a trip to the Edinbu

Walk of the week: Ben Nevis

Fishing and Shooting

One day you answer a mysterious advert, the next you're part of a team racing a clipper 35,000 miles around the world

Interview: Karen Darke, the disabled adventurer's next task is to get to the South Pole using arm power alone

Walk of the week: Farland Point, Isle of Cumbrae

My little piece of Scotland: Dunbeath in Caithness

Roger Cox: Classic entertainment at the edge of the world

Walk of the week: Ben Vorlich

Fishing & Shooting with Alastair Robertson

Allotment tales

Roger Cox: Four seasons

Walk of the week: Stob Coire a'Chairn

Golf: Stoke Park Club, Park Road, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire

Fishing & Shooting

Garden gadgets

Walk of the week: Cairnwell, Carn a'Gheoidh and Carn Aosda, Glenshee

Fishing & Shooting with Alastair Robertson

Travel: Alladale

Outdoors: In peak condition

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