Welcome to Places Wild and High, the website of Jasmin Cameron Mountain Guiding. Jasmin is a qualified Mountain Leader, happy to tailor a package to your mountaineering and hillwalking aims in mainland Scotland.
Featured photo: Angel’s Peak and the Central Cairngorms
A number of us in this life happen to be perfectionists – and those of us who are fully recognise that this trait can make us create untold difficulties for ourselves. We’re aware that we’re making our lives extra hard, but most of the time simply can’t stop our brains from questing for perfectionism. And … Continue reading The Many Faces of Fear: Admitting to the Fear (of Fear)
Another guest blog this week, this time by health, wellbeing and strength training expert, Hugh Wallace, contributing to this ongoing forum addressing the subject of fear in the great outdoors environment. Hugh’s biography follows: ‘Born & lived most of my life as a Scot in Scotland but raised for a few years in New Zealand … Continue reading The Many Faces of Fear: The Distinction Between Fear and Danger
Guest blog by Graham Kelly entitled ‘Fear on the Ben’ follows on from my series of three articles addressing fear as experienced by mountaineers and outdoors sports people. Graham describes himself as: ‘a retired Railway Engineer, a slacker who got lucky, Mountain Leader and Mountain Rescue Team member, regular fell/hill runner and occasional climber.’ I have … Continue reading The Many Faces of Fear: Fear on the Ben
Parts One and Two of this series have examined what fear is, how it might manifest and how we as individuals can try to deal with it. In Part Three we’re now going to flip this on its head and look at fear from another angle – by considering how to help someone dealing with … Continue reading The Many Faces of Fear … (Part Three)
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