Harold Raeburn – The Steps of a Giant: Peter Biggar | Podcast April 13, 2024April 13, 2024John D Burns Comment Harold Raeburn is acknowledged as the father of Scottish mountaineering. At the dawn of the twentieth century he was pushing the boundaries of [...]
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 [...]
Hannah Francis: Fort William Mountain Festival | Podcast December 9, 2022December 9, 2022John D Burns From small beginnings Fort William Mountain Festival has become one of the biggest celebrations of outdoor activities in the UK. Now there’s a [...]
Andrew Terrill: On Sacred Ground | Podcast October 11, 2022October 11, 2022John D Burns Listen to Andrew Terrill talking about his 7,000 mile walk across Europe and his new book On Sacred Ground. Andrew spent 18 months [...]
Ian Carter: Rhythms of Nature | Podcast July 20, 2022July 22, 2022John D Burns Ian Carter talks on Outdoors in Scotland podcast about how contact with nature is so important to all our lives. [...]
The Cobbler an Iconic Mountain | Blog June 23, 2022June 29, 2022John D Burns Gerry McGarry talks about one of his favourite mountains, The Cobbler. [...]
Outside In: James Roddie James Roddie is included amongst ’10 of Britain’s most exciting landscape photographers’ by The Great Outdoors Magazine. In this episode I’ll be talking [...]
Outside In Aleister Crowley In this episode I’ll be talking about lockdown gut which I have decided is a thing. I’ll also be talking about Aleister Crowley, [...]
Scottish Salmon’s dark secret. November 25, 2019John D Burns What do you see when you think of Scottish salmon? A shining silver fish leaping through crystal clear water perhaps. Or maybe an [...]
Great offer on outdoor books November 12, 2019November 12, 2019John D Burns 30% Off all my books Sky Dance. I hope this will be my most unpopular book. I hope it gets vilified, I hope [...]