The Austrian Alpine Club is one of the biggest mountaineering clubs in the world. Have a look at the many, many lovely huts all over the country.

The German Alpine Club is one of the largest mountaineering clubs in the world with many huts all over the Alps.

Scotland’s National Outdoor Training Centre

Hebridean Pursuits Ltd has been running challenging outdoor activity programmes for over 10,000 young people and adults in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland during the last 20 years. We are a small specialised company which aims to build courses and holidays around your ambitions – hence many clients coming to us again and again.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818). 94.8 × 74.8 cm, Kunsthalle Hamburg. This well-known and especially Romantic masterpiece was described by the writer John Lewis Gaddis as leaving a contradictory impression, “suggesting at once mastery over a landscape and the insignificance of the individual within it. We see no face, so it’s impossible to know [...]

What is Walking Stories?  It’s a website where people can share their walking experiences with each other, and learn about new places. It’s a virtual campfire or water cooler, where you can swap advice, anecdotes, and amusing events. It’s a community in the making, for people who find pleasure and build friendships through walking.   [...]