Climb any mountain with a paraglider in your backpack and glide down into the valley. Or on to the next cabin. Our author has bought a hiking umbrella - and simply tried it out
Ariane Stäubli is one of the few female mountain guides in the world. She battles high peaks - and steep prejudices. A conversation about gender roles on the mountain
For several weeks our author wandered through Norway in the pouring rain as a teenager. To this day the biggest fail of his outdoor life - but a tough test of an unexpected kind.