Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is a bothy bag? We explain the benefits of this lightweight, portable group emergency shelter that is vital for cold weather ...

The most egg-shaped of all the egg campers, the British-developed Barefoot Caravan has been wowing camper fanatics with its shapely fiberglass since launching over a decade ago. Despite its compact, ...

Mountain bikers warm by the fire at Lairig Leacach Bothy, after setting up camp for the night. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Scotland’s newly reopened mountain bothies are shining examples of ...

The UK's most northerly bothy has been restored after years of decline and I thought the best way to see what it was all about was to spend the night there. For those who don't know, bothies are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Below the hulking rocky mass of the Devil’s Point, a group of young women approach a small mountain shelter on ...

Bothies - remote shelters in the wilderness where walkers can spend the night free of charge - have long been one of Scotland's best-kept secrets. A new book has revealed the location of 80 of the ...

If you’re looking for a proper outdoor backpacking adventure on your bike, but don’t have weeks to spend away, then a spot of bothy bikepacking is the perfect solution. Rather than staying under ...

TG4 will air a special docu/concert of The Bothy Band, considered Ireland’s ‘forefathers’ of Irish traditional music, on Sunday, March 31. The program, which tells the story of one of Ireland’s ...

Word of the reunion of The Bothy Band spread like wildfire at the end of last year, after the group played together again almost a half-century after they blazed into traditional music and nearly 45 ...

Mountain bikers warm by the fire at Lairig Leacach Bothy, after setting up camp for the night. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Scotland’s newly reopened mountain bothies are shining examples of ...