Behind the Bothies | Videocast April 1, 2025April 1, 2025John D Burns If you have ever wondered what it means to maintain a mountain bothy and what kind of people take a look at this [...]
The work of the Mountain Bothies Association | Podcast February 21, 2025February 21, 2025John D Burns If you have ever visited a bothy and wondered who fixes the roof, repairs the windows and keeps the rain out, you can [...]
Anna Danby: Fortwilliam Mountain Fest 2025 | Podcast February 8, 2025February 8, 2025John D Burns Anna Danby talks about what’s on at Fort William Mountain Festival as Scotland’s premier outdoor event grows to new heights. [...]
Kat Hill: Bothy | Podcast July 3, 2024July 3, 2024John D Burns John D. Burns talks to Kat Hill about her new book, Bothy, and her delight in these remote shelters. The pace at which [...]
Chris Townsend: A Cairngorm Conversation | Podcast June 13, 2024June 13, 2024John D Burns Author and photographer, Chris Townsend, talks about the future of the Cairngorms. [...]
John McLellan: Unconformity | Podcast April 26, 2024April 26, 2024John D Burns Listen to John McLellan talking about his new novel, Unconformity. In his second novel, John McLellan continues his love affair with the wild [...]
Harold Raeburn – The Steps of a Giant: Peter Biggar | Podcast April 13, 2024April 26, 2024John D Burns Harold Raeburn is acknowledged as the father of Scottish mountaineering. At the dawn of the twentieth century he was pushing the boundaries of [...]
Alan Hepburn: The drive to Re-wild Scotland | Podcast April 2, 2024April 2, 2024John D Burns Listen to Alan Hepburn talking about Scotland’s rewilding journey. Alan is a life-long environmentalist, who fought for a moratorium on whale hunting in [...]
Harrison Ward: Cook Out | Podcast November 21, 2023November 21, 2023John D Burns Have you ever been on a trek and looked at your meal of highly processed dehydrated food and thought, “Is there a way [...]
Diversity in the outdoors: Jon Barton | Podcast March 15, 2023March 15, 2023John D Burns Jon Barton, who runs Vertebrate Publishing, talks about how new guidebooks and new technology is encouraging more people with a wide range of [...]