Mountain

Get up early, grab a bike and take a look around the back of your favourite hill. You might be surprised at what you find.

North-east Afghanistan, July 2010. On the edge of the Little Pamir range, in a tiny village surrounded by mountains, a phone call changes everything. Music Cylinder Two and Cylinder Four by Chris Zabriskie, The Fathomless Caves II by Jihel, The Summit by Blue Dot Sessions and Running Waters by Jason Shaw. A special thanks to Robyn Friend, who sang the Persian … Continue reading "#9 A last letter home"

A bonus episode, with more from fiddle player Siobhan Anderson on how she chose the music for episode 7 - and her deep family links to Beinn Dorain.

With modern maps and GPS, we think we know the hills better than anyone. But open a map of any mountain in the Scottish Highlands and there’s evidence those who roamed these hills long before us knew them intimately - perhaps more than we ever will.

Assynt, in north-west Scotland, is one of the world’s most startling landscapes. Shark’s fin mountains rise vertically from a plateau of three-billion-year-old rock. But for a landscape of real beauty, mystery and dread, you need to journey inwards.

Skye, late September 1981. A young woman sits in a dark bothy, staring into a fire. A pair of flimsy shoes are propped next to her, drying in the heat, and a kettle comes to the boil. Who was the Angel of Camasunary and where did she go? Hillwalker and photographer Duncan McCallum tells the story.

As the climber Mo Anthoine used to say, sometimes you have to feed the rat. After a winter indoors editing podcast episodes about other people's adventures, Mountain host Christopher Sleight heads to the Cairngorms for a full-on winter's day.

On 19th May 2015, Adrian Oram was enjoying a good day in the mountains with his climbing partner Mike. But for their friends back home, a completely different story was playing out. Adrian and Mike had leading roles – only they knew nothing about it.

It's Easter Saturday, 1998. Two climbers are alone in a tiny tent in an isolated Himalayan valley. There's a gnawing cold and the snow conditions are against them. Should they go for the summit again? Or play it safe and head for the valley?

This week, Mountain goes deep inside the mind of elite runner Joe Symonds, as he takes on the UK's first sky race - a 50 km route over summits and along ridges in a trial of the body and mind.