The Great Outdoors

TGO Magazine is your essential guide to hillwalking and backpacking in the UK and overseas. Get out more! We provide all the inspiration you need to plan your next trip, plus expert reviews and tips. The Great Outdoors is for anyone who loves walking in the hills, mountains and wild places. With information on the latest gear, in-depth features and stunning photography, The Great Outdoors will help you access the high peaks and long trails of Britain and beyond. Our enhanced digital addition includes even more great photos and interactive content.

Sharing a joy that transcends…

Contributors & contacts • Just some of the women who made this mag…

The Great Outdoors

MARCH in the mountains

Disko Island, Greenland

TESSA SIMPSON graphic designer • Tessa’s intricate and experimental artwork will draw you to the mountains

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The Cairngorms and North-East Scotland

PEN LLITHRIG Y WRACH • Jim Perrin recalls failing to follow his prejudices to one lofty roadside attraction

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Don’t do it for Instagram Do it for you! • To celebrate International Women’s Day, we asked five legendary mountain-loving women to share their inspirational back stories – and their advice to an upcoming generation of female hillwalkers

WOMAN with ALTITUDE • Elise Wortley has spent years walking in the footsteps of the female explorers who came before her. In August 2024, she put on hobnailed boots, a bonnet and boa for an attempt on western Europe’s highest summit, Mont Blanc

GOING THE DISTANCE • Lorraine McCall is a serial ‘compleater’ and a serial cancer survivor. In 2024 she became the first person to achieve a continuous round of the Grahams. Here, she tells the story of her round, a story that began with another woman – Fiona Graham – in the pages of The Great Outdoors over three decades earlier

COLOURS OF THE WIND • When health problems dashed Lydia Paleschi’s dreams of reaching Everest Base Camp, she resorted to the ‘easier’ Helambu Trek. But it didn’t take her long to realise that this lesser-known Himalayan adventure is a bucket list trip in its own right

FIND YOUR OUTDOOR TRIBE • Looking to extend your circle of adventure buddies? Hanna Lindon explores the different ways of meeting like-minded hill folk…

GEAR • News from the world of outdoor kit, and product reviews from Britain’s most experienced gear-testing team

NEW REVIEWS • Kirsty Pallas and David Lintern test exciting new gear

BASE LAYERS • Base layers are at the heart of our outdoors clothing system. Lara Dunn and Peter Macfarlane test the foundations

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INSULATED JACKETS FOR WINTER • Lara Dunn and Peter Macfarlane get cosy with four of the best puffy insulation layers for winter summits and cold camps.

WILDWALKS

1 High Pike & Roughton Gill Lake District ENGLAND

2 Keswick & Latrigg Lake District ENGLAND

3 Angletarn Pikes & Beda Fell Lake District ENGLAND

4 Great Pinseat Yorkshire Dales ENGLAND

5 Cwm Llan & Yr Aran Eryri/Snowdonia WALES

6 Llantysilio Mountain Denbighshire WALES

7 Pen y Fan & Cribyn Bannau Brycheiniog/Brecon Beacons WALES

8 Yr Eifl Llyn ^ Peninsula WALES

9 Old Winchester Hill & Beacon Hill South Downs ENGLAND

10 Hunter’s Tor & Easdon Tor Dartmoor ENGLAND

A fond farewell • In her final Coastscript column, Emma Schroeder looks back on the high points of her epic trek

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