Roger Cox

1 week ago | scotsman.com | Roger Cox

Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous visit to the Cévennes could have been very different if he’d turned right instead of left at a critical moment, writes Roger CoxIn late September 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson set off on a 12-day hike through south-central France, starting in Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille in the Haute-Loire and ending up in Saint-Jean-du-Gard, about 200km to the south. His travelling companion was a donkey called Modestine who, it’s fair to say, didn’t always make life easy for him.

2 weeks ago | scotsman.com | Roger Cox

With 11,000 miles of coastline it’s little wonder that Scotland’s artists have a history of responding to the sea​, but this month aquatic art seems to be everywhere you look, writes Roger CoxI’ve often thought that somebody somewhere should curate an all-singing, all-dancing, centuries-spanning exhibition of Scottish sea art.

3 weeks ago | scotsman.com | Roger Cox

Having climbed Everest twice and skied solo to the South Pole Mollie Hughes knows a thing or two about bouncing back from difficult situations, and in her new book Breathe she shares some of what she’s learned. Interview by Roger Cox There is a scene in Breathe, the new book by adventurer Mollie Hughes, which manages to be both achingly poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. It’s December 2019, and Hughes is in the early stages of a record-breaking attempt to ski solo to the South Pole.

1 month ago | scotsman.com | Roger Cox

A new documentary will show how an altercation with a local surfer in Portugal threatened to derail the Tiree-based athlete’s career just as it seemed to be taking off, writes Roger Cox It’s a Saturday evening in late April, and the events room at the Lost Shore surf resort just outside Edinburgh – pleasingly boat-like, with its wooden floors and exposed wooden ceiling joists – is packed to the gunwales for a test screening of the first part of Beyond the Island, an in-development new...

1 month ago | scotsman.com | Roger Cox

Shepherd’s continuing influence can be seen in several contributions to There She Goes, a new book of travel writing by women, writes Roger Cox When Nan Shepherd’s dazzling hymn to the Cairngorms, The Living Mountain, was first published in 1977, shortly before the author’s death in 1981, it made very little impact.