The other day I was trying to remember the first “hill” I climbed. It was almost certainly Binny Craig in West Lothian. I could see it from the window of my childhood bedroom, the rugged knoll ...

Binny Craig is a classic example of a “crag-and-tail” landform, a legacy from the last ice age, with its “crag” of hard rock facing west and sloping “tail” of sedimentary rock and ...