OS Map: Explorer 140: Quantock Hills & Bridgwater This stretch of south-west coastal path is the longest national trail in the country, and perhaps the most rugged.
He did not quite get to the rugged mountains of Afghanistan.
And Darrell Eastlake, who, if he hadn't found his niche as a commentator, could have been used along our rugged coastline to warn ships off rocks in the dead of night.
Nothing could be more rugged than the archive images of the mountaineer George Mallory preparing to tackle Everest in stout tweed suit and brown boots – and nothing more skittish than his newly discovered letters to the writer and leading member of the Bloomsbury set, Lytton Strachey.
It is a place of contrasts, wooded and farmed, but with a rugged east-facing coastline where you can watch the oil rigs being tugged in for servicing from the North Sea.
The graves lie beyond the reach of any vehicle up a difficult track across rugged terrain, suggesting that whoever was in the graves was alive when they made the climb.
The latest track lifted from Carnation is Daddy I Cut My Hair, and its video follows the movements of a young girl as she navigates the rugged terrain of an neglected American town.
Their experimental, vernacular early works reinforced the impression Iain and I assimilated from school and university in the early 70s: that poetry had evolved away from contrived artificialities of rhythm and diction to free verse, and that the high points were TS Eliot's The Waste Land and the rugged, ragged lines of Hugh MacDiarmid.
Outcropping shards of the underlying Precambrian rock seem a strikingly rugged intrusion into such a soft landscape.
Weekly departures throughout 2010 California's picturesque railroads offer a fascinating way to see America's Wild West, whisking you past giant redwood forests, rugged coastlines and historic gold rush towns that might otherwise take days to reach by car.
The sublime and rugged landscape is part of Kintyre's charm but in these remote spots it is important to have the option of good food and fine shelter.
