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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in TGO - The Great Outdoors Magazine Mar-23.
The allure of the ice
Trekking with a view of Mont Blanc - and the melting Miage glacier
Photo: Shutterstock
THE ALPS HAVE ALWAYS loomed large over the European imagination. Until the late 18th C...
IN THIS ISSUE
Sue Fletcher is an awardwinning novelist. She writes contemporary and historical fiction and her articles have appeared in The Independent and The Sunday Times. Her passion for remote landscapes...
RHOS FAWR
‘.. a great dome of shales and flagstones reaching to over 2,000 feet and given mountain qualities where the Harley Dingle nearly cuts it in two, forming steep slopes that climb to crags such as...
Beinn Alligin, Torridon
Photo by James Roddie jamesroddie.com
Several days of northerly winds and heavy showers had covered the hills of the Highlands with a blanket of deep snow. I set off up Beinn Alligin seve...
HEATHER MACKINS
Col de la Seigne on the Tour du Mont Blanc
Loch Glencoul on the Cape Wrath Trail
Photo credit: Heather Mackins
On the CWT: Conival
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Social media Share your views, your experiences and your favourite photos tgo.ed@kelsey.co.uk In the February issue, amid protests over a wealthy landowner’s attempts to ban wild camping in Dartmo...