TGO Magazine

27/11/2025

🥾 Are your teenagers too old to be tempted outdoors by scavenger hunts and wildlife bingo cards? Firstborn, MBA Trustee and outdoor expert Juls Stodel suggests a novel approach - just have the headphones on standby!

🔗 Read on and learn you could win a £100 gift voucher to spend with Scottish-born brand Highlander Outdoor:

MBA trustee (and firstborn) Juls Stodel suggests a novel approach to getting your teenager hiking in the outdoors.

27/11/2025

Craving feel-good adventure in 2026? 🌄

❄ Get your new year guide to endorphin-fuelled exploration - from stress-busting swims to zen-like camps, winter rounds and snowshoeing 101 in the new issue of !

In this issue:
🗞 We remember our founding editor, Roger Smith
🌊 How to get started: ice swimming & winter camps
🍺 From fellside to fireside, we map Britain’s best pub walks
🎿 Alex Roddie snowshoes through the Tyrolian Alps
🐺 Adam Weymouth follows a wolf on a 1000-mile solo trek
☃ Feel the chill? Top tips for staying warm – and advice to avoid
🏆 We reveal the shortlist in our annual TGO Reader Awards!
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Jim Perrin paints a portrait of a mini North-Walian mountain
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We escape on a snow-clad Am Basteir
🧤 Honest reviews of winter gloves & head torches
🐦 Nadia Shaikh finds company for dark nights in winter flocks
🥾 Juls Stodel helps another reader with their Uphill Struggle
🍿 Be inspired by the latest must-watch outdoor film
and so much more!

📸: Alex Roddie

Get your guide to endorphin-fuelled adventure now:
https://www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue/feel-good-adventure-january-2026/

13/11/2025

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13/11/2025

"In the UK some 24% of all people have a physical disability, rising to 45% of pensioners. With such a large proportion of the population potentially struggling with activities that others take for granted, it’s no wonder that the recent development of AI exoskeletons has captured people’s imaginations, including mine..."

Rosee Woodland strapped into a Hypershell exoskeleton - but would it live up to all the hype?

📸: Gary Moore

https://www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/hypershell-ai-exoskeletons-for-hiking/

13/11/2025

❄ Winter is coming, and it won’t all be bluebird days of grippy neve, sunglasses and views for miles. So, we’re delighted to be working in partnership with Scotland’s national outdoor training centre once again for this year’s Winter Skills Special.

🏔 Many of our readers will have a relationship with Glenmore Lodge. It’s an institution for good reason. This time, we’re guided safely through the mysteries of avalanche prone terrain by senior forecaster for the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, Graham Moss.

🎒 Mountaineering Instructor Tom Weston answers our practical questions on what to put in our winter packs and puts the age-old crampons vs microspikes argument to bed once and for all.

🌄 And we meet the next generation of Instructors, partaking of what Glenmore Lodge does best – sharing knowledge, helping people thrive, and celebrating the magic and grit of winter.”

📸: David Lintern

🔗 Read on in the new issue of :
https://www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue/experience-mountain-time-travel-in-our-december-issue

10/11/2025

🥾 Tummy troubles on the trail are a topic ignored too often. In the latest Uphill Struggles advice column, Juls Stodel puts ramblers’ digestion and gut health back on the menu – along with a couple of packets of Dioralyte!

🔗 Read on and learn how you can win a £100 gift voucher with Highlander via the link in bio.

Tummy troubles on the trail are a topic ignored too often. Juls Stodel puts digestion back on the menu – and a couple of packets of Dioralyte!

08/11/2025

Rock of Ages 📜

🥾 Fossilised dinosaur prints, volcanic craters, ice-carved corries – there are places in Britain where the landscape is a portal to the past. Hanna Lindon takes a stroll through 4 billion years of British history.

🦕 “On Skye’s sea-girt northwestern coastline, where the toes of the Trotternish Ridge crumble into the sea, is a small, sheltered bay. The rocks here form a sort of stepped pavement, which curves protectively around a small crescent of sand. This is An Corran Beach; and it’s one of just a handful of places in the world where you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs…”

Read on in the new issue of :
https://www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue/experience-mountain-time-travel-in-our-december-issue/

07/11/2025

You may already know that Windermere is dying. But the latest footage of the algal blooms must be seen to be believed.

📽️ Watch the fast-paced new film - a continuation of the upstream battle to rid England’s largest lake from sewage - from the campaign now:

The footage of our dying lake in the new film from the Save Windermere campaign - by Matt Staniek - must be seen to be believed.

07/11/2025

🥾 You nominated in your droves and we are now delighted to reveal the shortlist across 15 categories in The Great Outdoors Reader Awards 2026!

🏔 Vote now to champion the people, places and businesses who've made your life in the hills and mountains better this year - and please share so others may have their say in the biggest democratic celebration of British outdoor culture.

Please take the time to get acquainted with your The Great Outdoors Reader Awards 2026 nominees and vote now - each one counts!

04/11/2025

Roger Smith was the founding editor of The Great Outdoors and bought the TGO Challenge to life. He shepherded both for many years with a careful ethos and calm approach. Following his recent death, we asked friends and colleagues to share their memories of a quiet, kind and remarkable man.

Roger Smith was the founding editor of The Great Outdoors and bought the TGO Challenge to life. We share memories of this remarkable man.

31/10/2025

🍂 LAST CHANCE: Nominate your outdoor heroes in The Great Outdoors Reader Awards!

🏆 The Great Outdoors Reader Awards are the UK’s biggest democratic celebration of the best of outdoor culture. Fourteen years ago, we launched our first annual awards and you - our readers - have been championing the people, places and businesses that make our lives outdoors better ever since.

🥾 Once again, The Reader Awards are open across 15 categories including the Open Outdoors award, pub of the year, campaigner of the year, brand of the year, and many more. What makes these Reader Awards different – and gives extra kudos to the winners – is that it’s you, the outdoor going public, who decide the results. Only your nominees make it onto the shortlist, and only those shortlisted who win most of your votes walk away with a top accolade.

🔗 So, choose wisely and nominate now - and please share the news so other can have their say!

⏳ Nominations close on October 31 2025 at midnight. Thank you for taking part.

Recognise the best of British outdoor culture. Nominate your outdoor heroes for The Great Outdoors Reader Awards 2026 now!

31/10/2025

Mountains of Style 🏔

🥾 Today, down jackets built for K2 are worn on the school run and premium waterproofs pop up in pubs. In their photo book, Mountain Style, Max Leonard and Henry Iddon track down hard-as-nails but unheralded mountaineers of the past and the fabric innovators who put them safely – and sometimes even stylishly – on summits to ask: how did we get here?

🧵 “The conquest of Everest was a watershed. Part of that was the advanced clothing it introduced: down jackets from France and one of the first synthetic-cotton fabrics in the windsuits that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay wore. It also kickstarted an explosion in the popular love of the outdoors. Around this time, the first national parks, Outward Bound and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award were created, helping many more people enjoy the outdoors. Everest’s innovations didn’t trickle down quickly. In that immediate post-war period, austerity still reigned, and most people wore woolly jumpers and breeches or old work clothes when they headed out to the hills. But change, driven by new materials, was not far away…”

🔗 Read on in the new issue of :
https://www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue/experience-mountain-time-travel-in-our-december-issue/