Nick Drainey

NICK DRAINEY has been hillwalking since his parents took him up the Lake District fells as a small boy in the 1970s. His career as a journalist took him to Scotland in 1998 and a love of the country’s landscapes grew into writing about walking. Now he is trying to instil the same love of the outdoors in his own children.

Since leaving university he has been a journalist, formerly with the Press Association, Scotsman and The Times, among others, and now as a freelance concentrating on the outdoors and rural issues for newspapers, magazines and radio. Find more of his work at theviewfromthehill.co.uk