Song, music, speech, drama and art will play a central part in four events to be presented by Kilmartin Museum Continue reading
Category Archives: Walking
Karen Birch of Breakthrough 100 to walk and talk Scotland for breast cancer charity
Almost 50,000 women and around 400 men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Continue reading
Summer Isles’ Tanera Mor on the market

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

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
Mike Masters on the way to Everest Base Camp – with some surprises
Mike Masters, from Furnace, is this morning [2nd April] on the hairy little flight from 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











