The Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye presents one of the most formidable mountaineering challenges in the UK, demanding technical skill, endurance and a head for heights. We've been there and ...

Skye’s Cuillin Ridge is the Holy Grail of British scrambling. Are you ready for the challenge? Describing the Cuillin Ridge as a scramble would be like billing K2 as an exciting mountaineering route – ...

In this two part series, we accompany the writer and mountaineer Robert Macfarlane on his attempt to complete the Cuillin Ridge. This expedition marks twenty years since his first book 'Mountains ...

Footage shows daring rider Danny MacAskill perform stunts on the Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye Stunt biker Danny MacAskill has said he pictured the perilous Cuillin mountain range as 'a ...

In his wonderful tome (565 pages of it) of a book, The Black Ridge: Amongst the Cuillin of Skye, author Simon Ingram arrays history, geology, weather and folklore around his own personal triumph ...

At the heart of the six-mile-long Cuillin ridge rises the Inaccessible Pinnacle, or In Pin to its suitors. A fearsome dorsal-fin rock, the pinnacle is the stuff of recurrent nightmares for those ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Four off-duty members of Police Scotland’s expert crew were climbing the Cuillin Ridge on Skye when they got into difficulty on Saturday night. A Coastguard rescue helicopter and a local ...

Swapping his familiar trials bike for a full suspension mountain bike, Danny travelled to the Isle of Skye, the place where he was born and grew up, to ride the epic trail on the Cuillin Ridge.

Writer and mountaineer crosses the iconic Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye. Along the way, he muses on the ways in which these particular mountains have been explored. Show more In this two part ...