A blue plaque is being installed in Gatehouse to honour Hamish MacInnes, who scaled the Matterhorn aged just 16.

While each of the four nations that comprise the United Kingdom boast mountain regions of their own, Scotland’s high places are the highest, most extensive and the most spectacular. The country ...

Scotland is the destination in the UK for mountains. It's just on another level to England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with ...

Mountain rescue officials in Scotland are pleading with the public to use proper equipment, following a tough winter rescue.

Scotland is known for the rugged beauty of its mountainous landscape. A Scottish mountain with a summit over 3000 feet is classified as a Munro. That might be short in comparison to Everest’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Lorraine Duncan turned 40, she decided to go “Munro bagging” — climbing Scottish mountains over ...

The Scottish Highlands are undoubtedly a paradise for hikers of all levels: unspoilt beauty, vast landscapes and craggy mountains are all in abundance. Spanning more than a third of Scotland’s ...

But now there’s less snow. A hare blends into a snowbank in Scotland’s Monadhliath Mountains. The United Kingdom’s only native lagomorph trades its mouse brown summer coat for a pale winter ...