What's in the issue

COOL DOWN with the new issue of The Great Outdoors!

With 30+ pages of mapped wild swimming walks, dip like a local from Scottish summit-to-sauna routes to Dartmoor riverside camps with our waterside special - available now so you can enjoy a truly chilled summer in nature. Elsewhere, Jim Perrin meanders through yesteryear along the River Wye with a colourful cast of characters and we escape to the Stour on the Dorset Heaths.

To get you out there in comfort, our pros test the best solo backpacking tents and hiking shoes.

PLUS: Share your Uphill Struggle to be in with the chance to WIN £100 to spend with Highlander; Kenton Cool on his record-breaking Everest ascent; Rich Hartfield solo backpacks from Lake Maggiore into the jagged terrain of the Valle Maggia; and brave readers share their hiking health horrors so we can all learn from their tales of woe.