Scottish Youth Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture

THE Scottish Youth Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture has been presented to Steph McKenna from Lochaber. McKenna divides her time between local charity Lochaber Hope and local business Off Beat Bikes. Last summer, she worked as a seasonal ranger with the John Muir Trust and ran a junior ranger scheme. “We live in such…

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Tim Miller wins the Youth Mountain Culture Award

Scottish climbing instructor Tim Miller has won the Youth Mountain Culture Award. West Highland College UHI and the Fort William Mountain Festival revealed the 23-year-old, a fully qualified mountaineering and climbing instructor, a volunteer climbing coach at The Glasgow Academy; and a graduate of Earth Science (BSc) from The University of Glasgow, is the sixth…

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‘Death Zone’ climber headlines 2020 mountain festival

The Fort William Mountain Festival 2020 programme has been announced, including ‘Death Zone’ mountaineer, Nirmal Purja. It will feature a line-up of uplifting talks, exhilarating film screenings, mountain skills workshops and exhibitions over five days in February during Lochaber’s best winter walking, climbing and snowsports conditions of the year. The Fort William Mountain Festival 2020…

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Celebrate the great outdoors at mountain festival

The Fort William Mountain Festival 2019 programme has revealed. It will feature a superb line-up of inspiring presentations, adrenaline filled and thought-provoking world-class film screenings, mountain skills workshops and exhibitions, all staged in and around the bustling Highland town of Fort William, at the heart of the Outdoor Capital of the UK, from Wednesday 20…

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Fort William running events are revealed for 2018

Competitive runners will head to the hills this month for the Runduro event. No Fuss Events, the Fort William-based organisers of multiple outdoor adventure sport events, has revealead its 2018 scheduled of off road running events, together with the announcement of a new partnership with Compressport, the high end compression clothing manufacturer. The series will…

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