Outdoor Stories

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19 February 2025

Geoff Shoults explores the Howden & Bleaklow Moors

For a very brief moment I was amused.  An image - possibly from Blazing Saddles - flashed through my mind before it disappeared across the bleak moorland.  I was up...

10 Sunrise Departure Into Cloud
20 December 2024

Nigel Barrett on Mt Manukau in New Zealand part 2

One just can’t have an unsuccessful attempt on a summit and leave it like that. Something inside gnaws at you until the peak is climbed. So naturally another attempt on...

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13 December 2024

Nigel Barrett on Mt Manukau in New Zealand part 1

If there was ever any doubt about how waterproof and how amazingly breathable Páramo gear is, let me extinguish all doubt now and evermore. You see, last September, I happened...

Sunset mountain climb in the snow in Paramo jacket
12 April 2024

Páramo supports a British Army expedition

  Here, Captain Joe Robertson recounts the trials and triumphs of a recent Royal Engineers (British Army) exploratory mountaineering, science and sustainability expedition to the remote island of South Georgia...

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10 November 2023

Four friends trek the Alpine Dreamway

  Read the account from Joe, Ollie, Sol and Finn on their epic hiking trip through Austria into Italy, across a part of the Traumpfad, the long-distance hiking route from...

Paramo And Wild Camping
8 August 2023

Páramo and wild camping

  When you are wild camping, your outdoor gear needs to work that extra bit harder for you. For a start, you are carrying on your back everything you need...

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6 July 2023

Ben Phillips cycles 1,635km through France

  Keen cyclist Ben Phillips has been working with Páramo for over 3 years and this summer, along with a group of friends, he set himself the challenge of a...

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8 June 2023

Stay comfortable on safari in Páramo

  From travel jackets and shirts to trousers and accessories, Páramo is your go-to outdoor brand for comfortable safari holiday kit. Take advantage of our 15% travel garment discount this...

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19 May 2023

27 Days in the Norwegian Mountains

  Geoff Shoults is an all-round outdoor enthusiast and professional photographer. This is his account of an epic 27-day expedition on skis through the harsh, yet breath-taking terrain of the...

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10 January 2023

Winter in Iceland

  Justin Minns is a professional landscape photographer and unsurprisingly, spends a lot of his time outdoors. He specialises in dramatic, atmospheric images and as the best conditions often occur...