John Beatty is widely acclaimed as one of the most exciting and stimulating nature, travel and adventure photographers to have emerged in recent years. With over twenty years of assignments to his name, John’s work has taken him from the peaks of all the Greater Ranges to the American Deserts, to the teeming wildlife of East Africa and the wonder of the Galapagos Islands.

You can catch Wild Vision at the Albert Halls in Stirling on the 28th October. The evning will be a chance to hear about his extraordinary life. John's trips have taken him to over 38 different countries and have included seven months spent in Antarctica with the British Antartic Survey, a winter in Spitzbergen where he surveyed 350 kilometres of untracked arctic mountains and glaciers and a four hundred mile unsupported sled traverse of the Greenland Icecap. More info here

The Langside Mountaineering Club History Section is now live. Check out the videos of club members climbing in Ben A'an in The Trossachs sometime between 1959 and 1960. Take a look at the climbing gear or the lack of it. Also interesting to note the lack of rain back in 1960 - those were the days. Anyway - if anybody has any other interesting film, photos or articles then let us have them and they will be added.