Sam is taking me to some of the caves and caverns left behind by the slate quarrying industry. From the valley bottom, it's taken us about 30 minutes to clamber up to Dalton's home, hewn by quarrymen from the rocks of Castle Crag in Borrowdale.

High up on that wild, inhospitable hillside we left someone behind to brew his own. Welcome to the rough, tough world of Lanty Slee, the Lake District's legendary bootlegger.

At the start of the year, the Mammut Pro Team athlete Caro North swapped freezing conditions in Europe for the Argentinian summer. Just two hours from the famous climbing area of Frey, she and her friends discovered an almost untouched climbers’ paradise.

His aim is usually to stand on mountain peaks. Even for Dani Arnold, starting a climb with a descent into the darkness was a new mountaineering experience. Follow Dani’s adventure in the depths of the Plaine-Morte glacier and his climb back to daylight with an ice axe.

It was a dark and gloomy morning as Ethan Walker, Michelle Kim Theisen and myself huddled in a quiet corner of Llanberis's bustling V12 Outdoor climbing shop in the heart of Wales's Snowdonia National Park.

With so much of the wall to see we recruited the help of author, guide and Hadrian’s Wall expert, Mark Richards to take us along for the day on one of his favourite routes.