Sounding Dunadd: Kilmartin to Dunadd

Song, music, speech, drama and art will play a central part in four events to be presented by Kilmartin Museum Continue reading

Summer Isles’ Tanera Mor on the market

Tanera Mor 1

We’re just about to go north for a few days – to Loch Ewe in Wester Ross, reporting from the WWII and Arctic Convoys Week Continue reading

SNH publishes new map of Scotland’s wild land

today, 30th April and for the first time in the UK, a map showing the main areas of wild land in Scotland Continue reading

A dram from Argyll and a village newsletter at Kala Patar

Mike Masters and the Furnace Press at Kala Patar, above base camp

This is Mike Masters of the Furnace Stores at Kala Patar – 5545m  – on Thursday 11th April, 200 metres above Continue reading

At and above Everest Base Camp

Mike Masters from Furnace reached his target of Kala Patar, above Everest Base Camp, yesterday [11th April], after a tough Continue reading

Huge success for Ardroy in funding for buy out

There has been a major and very welcome development in Ardroy Outdoor Education Centre’s Continue reading

Minister visits Oban Mountain Rescue to pay tribute to the Scottish service

In 2011 Scottish Mountain Rescue assisted 693 people over a total of 573 incidents, committing 24, 000 hours Continue reading

Virgin bus pass starts 60th birthday present journey to Everest Base Camp

Mike Masters from Furnace Stores set out yesterday [30th March] from the Loch Fyneside village Continue reading