720 articles found
News · 14 Feb 2014
We are thrilled to announce that Cicerone has struck gold in the 2013 Walk magazine reader awards. Last week the Cicerone team made the trip down to the Outdoors Show in London,...
News · 6 Feb 2014
Cicerone are delighted to announce that we have won the gold award in the Wanderlust magazine Travel Awards, 2014.
Article · 24 Jan 2014
Cicerone author Richard Miller tells us about how to came to write the guidebook to Via Ferratas of the French Alps and what he loves about the area. Like so many Cicerone...
News · 12 Nov 2013
Congratulations to Cicerone author Rudolf Abraham on winning the Travel Photographer of the Year Award at the British Guild of Travel Writers' Members Awards dinner. Rudolf is the...
Article · 24 Oct 2013
Tell someone you're off to Gran Canaria and they'll inevitably think of beaches, resorts and advise you on a good book to soak up the sun. But concentrating solely on one small, sandy bit of coastline, or not stepping away from the bars in Las...
Article · 8 Oct 2013
Too often, autumn means lengthy rain, gusting winds and overcast skies. But there are days - maybe not as frequent as we'd like - when the clouds clear and autumn becomes a...
Feature · 3 Oct 2013
Alan Hinkes' video from the summit of K2 which he climbed in 1995, on his third attempt. Read Alan's story of the ascent of this, and all the other 8000m mountains of the world in his book 8000metres - Climbing the World's highest mountains.
Article · 24 Sept 2013
Multi-day walking with a dog is not as daunting a prospect as you might think, in fact it's a delight, and well worth the additional planning required. Having recently returned from walking the Cotswold Way with her Labrador Cassie, here are...
Article · 29 Aug 2013
One of the latest books to join the Cicerone range is A Walk in the Clouds by Kev Reynolds. This book is a collection of autobiographical short stories spanning a lifetime of...
Article · 23 Aug 2013
John Rooke Corbett was the fourth person and first Englishman to complete the Munros. He went on to create a list of Corbetts... But what is a Corbett?
Article · 12 Jul 2013
With the arrival of the new Cicerone guidebook to Peru, we caught up with our new author, Will Janecek, to find out what got him started writing the guide. Will also gave us a few handy tips on getting the most of your time there.
Article · 24 Jun 2013
One of the many joys of working here at Cicerone is being surrounded by amazing photos and guidebooks of great places to go for a walk. With new projects always ongoing to unspoilt, beautiful and relatively unknown mountains regions, there's just...
News · 14 Apr 2013
A new mountain is declared in England.
Video · 3 Jan 2013
Here is a video slideshow made by the author of our Trekking in Ladakh guidebook, Radek Kucharski. The short clip boasts a collection of stunning landscape photographs, the type of views you could expect to find when trekking in this region of...
News · 27 Jul 2012
Following the publication of Great Mountain Days in the Lake District in 2008, Cicerone teamed up with Fix the Fells project, which with the help of hundreds of volunteers maintains and repairs footpaths in the high fells of the Lake District.
Article · 12 Jun 2012
Not got any plans for the summer yet? Looking for a challenge and stunning scenery? Then this is the trek for you. Austria is renown for having fabulous mountain treks yet none...
Article · 1 Dec 2011
If remote walking in isolated and pristine mountain wilderness is your thing read on. As two wilderness loving people, we decided to set off for the unknown shores of Greenland this summer.
Article · 29 Nov 2011
For mountain enthusiasts and multi-day hikers, the allure of the Alps is inevitable, and an alpine trek staying high in mountain huts is an ideal way to explore the region. The...
News · 8 Nov 2011
Congratulations to Cicerone author Rudolf Abraham, whose article The Magic of Montenegro has won a major award.
News · 31 Oct 2011
We are delighted to announce the Cicerone guidebook Trekking in the Alps has won the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild 2011 ‘Guidebook Award for Excellence’.