Discover how to pack your rucksack for an adventure

Ordnance Survey Quiz 2018

No prizes, just challenges. See if you can answer all the questions in our Quiz. Don't forget to share your score at the end, and challenge your friends.

The best summer family festivals 2018

If you think that the English countryside consists of nothing but patchwork hills and sleepy villages, you’d be wrong! The UK festival season is amongst the largest in the world, and it’s easy to see why.

A pint too far? Unforgetable walk from Loch Nevis to Loch Hourn

For me a proper outdoor adventure always involves a tent or bivvy bag. See, I’m a wild camping addict – from mountain summits to hidden caves, under boulders or snuggled in bothies – I like to take my sleeping bag and head to the wildest places I can find. And it doesn’t come much wilder than Knoydart. Located between the two lochs of Nevis and Hourn is this peninsula, a jutting mountainous cluster of contour lines stretching into the sea. Sure it has a road. Just the one – 11km of tarmac that sits alone, not connected to rest of UK road network. And at the end of that road, sits the most remote pub in Britain called The Old Forge (www.theoldforge.co.uk). For this walk the main question is: How far would you walk for a pint? Because to enjoy that first sip of a post-walk ale is quite an adventure. You’ll need to start first in Mallaig where you’ll jump on a boat to drop you at Barrisdale Bay. From there it’s a long walk to the pub – and the campsite on Long Beach – but one you’ll never forget…