Category: Landscape and Nature

Creag Dhubh is the first hill Scottish writer Nan Shepherd climbed on her journey into the Cairngorms, described in her book The Living Mountain. It …

Setting off for an overnight climb and camp in the Cairngorms, our mountain guide friend, John, tucked a shepherd’s crook down the side of his …

On this night, eight years ago, I started writing my novel, Of Stone and Sky. It was the summer solstice here in the Highlands of …

How nature has colonised my notebooks as I’ve learnt more about the landscape and wildlife of the Cairngorms. A journey into observation.

The ospreys are back! It’s that exciting time of year in the Cairngorms when some of our most iconic species return for their summer breeding …

Here in the Cairngorms, Winter has put on quite the show. I know it might not be over. There is probably more snow and ice …

It started well. The party included my new husband, Alistair, and three friends, all experienced climbers. I was the only newbie but, hey, I’d grown …

It was one of those lost days between Christmas and New Year when we should have been travelling home from family in Yorkshire but had …

Millions of people around the world are celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Light, and it always takes me back to South Asia where I was …