SUMMIT EXCITING
It’s the sport of climbing mountains, but it’s far more than just hill-walking. Mountaineering is like hiking on steroids, with a dizzying dose of danger, adrenaline and adventure thrown in for good measure. Whether you’re scrambling a knife-edge ridge, donning crampons for a winter ascent or bagging a high-altitude summit abroad, mountaineering is your chance to play intrepid explorer.
‘High in the mountains, you’ll experience life on the edge’
Professional mountaineering guide Adrian Trendall is a big believer in the body-boosting, head-clearing power of places on high
As well as being a mountaineering guide, Trendall is a photographer and author of guidebook›Skye’s Cuillin Ridge Traverse (Cicerone Press, £19.95). Based on the Isle of Skye, he has summited
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