Here is a little piece on the brasher outdoor day last week from David Newell, who works in customer services:

"Last week, a bunch of us from brasher do what we like to do best, and got ourselves free from the office on our regular quarterly outdoor day.

And as you can see from the photographs, what a day it was, as we experienced all the splendour and adventure of the Via Ferrata at Honister slate mines near Keswick in the Lake District

We set off on a cold day but the wet weather held out until after we completed the climb.

Honisters Via Ferrata is an adventure climbing system that uses permanently fixed cable for safety and protection up the rock face, (which was used by the Victorian miners.)

Via Ferrata is Italian for “iron way” and it is England’s first such structure, but of course, there are many found in the Dolomites and the Alps as a quick scan of Google will confirm.

The owner of Via Ferrata, Mark Weir says: “Honister Via Ferrata is not just a first for the Lake District but the first in England. Not only will this be popular with those looking to make hill walking more exciting and challenging, but it will also introduce people of all abilities to try out hill walking in a completely secure environment with the success of achievement at the end.”

On our trip, the team got clipped onto the cable and started the amazing climb and trek through disused mines and over bridges.

Relaxing over a well earned and much-needed pit at the end of the day, the whole team agreed that this had been a great day, and an outing, (if you've got a head for heights), that we would highly recommend."

Here are some photos of the day from out ever-growing flickr sets:

Sir Ranulph Fiennes appeared in The Daily Telegraph last week.

In a fashion spread entitled: 'Sir Ranulph Fiennes the reluctant model'. (A headline presumably based on the fact that he doesn't look too happy in some of the shots.)

However, in one outfit he's wearing, we were delighted to see that he's shod in a pair of brasher Supalite GTX boots. Hope he liked them.

And although he may have looked uncomfortable in front of the camera, we hope he approved of the legendary out of the box comfort our boots are known for.

Of course, Sir Ranulph is far more at home on a hill-walk than the cat-walk, and this week sees him setting off on a new monumental challenge.

Wednesday, the 2nd of April saw him fly out to Kathmandu to prepare to climb Everest. He will take the South Col route from Nepal, which was first climbed in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

An expedition, he hopes to raise £3 million for Marie Curie Cancer Care's palliative programme, Delivering Choice.

Please follow the link to the site above and support the cause.

Quite a few of us here at brasher take our dogs with us when we take to the hills.

Marketing Manager Zoe takes her Black Labrador, Benji, who as you'd expect for a Lab, loves splashing about in the water. (particularly when it includes leaping of huge heights, and going in after stones.)

Mike, one of the web guys, takes Munky and Zippy his Jack Russell Terriers whenever he and his Missus go walking in Scotland. (And always, unfortunately, on the lead, as Munky is a bit of a canine nut-case. Who given half a chance would shoot down the nearest hole in the ground for a few hours at the drop of a hat.)

While MD Andy, has a Lake District-loving Springer Spaniel called Otis. (As in 'Redding' or 'Lift' Andy?)

And Steve, our Sales Director, has just got 2 Collie pups, who are all of 10 weeks old. Called Ollie and Jake, they get a lot of exercise in the local woods, which they seem to think was created especially for them.

We'll upload some video footage next time we're out with the dugs and our video cams at the same time.

But for now you might like to search out similarly minded hilly-dog walkers on YouTube.

Here are a couple of our favourites.

This is Po, and here are a couple of nameless Labs. (We'll at least one is definitely a Labrador, the other, gorgeous as he/she is, Mmm, we're not so sure of the breed. Some kind of Spaniel? Answers on a postcard please ;-)

Have you got any doggie hillwalking videos?

We'd love to see them.

If you thought celebs only wore Jimmy Choo's and Manolo's, then think again.

Because Amanda Mealing of Holby City, travelled to the slums in Sierra Leone in February for Save the Children and we provided her with a pair of Supalite XCR's for the trip.

Much-travelled Amanda has guest-starred in popular dramas such as The Bill, Midsomer Murders and In Deep.

She also appeared as an ex-girlfriend of surgeon Alex Adams in Holby City before taking up her regular role as Connie Beauchamp; 'a super confident ballbreaker with a ferocious appetite for life'.

Good on you Amanda for helping bring attention to Save the Children's Kroo Bay Project.

Did Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon secretly wear brasher boots?

This is the sensational claim we can reveal today.

Ex-Brasher Marketing Manager from the 1970's Ms April Loof, made the assertion today on this her 90th birthday.

Ms Loof said that, yes her memory wasn't quite what it was, but she could clearly recall that a special prototype brasher 'Moonmaster' boot was worn on that historic day in July 1969.

However, sources close to NASA rubbish the idea, saying that as Armstrong's walk was in 1969 and the Brasher Boot Company didn't originate until the 1970's, there was something of a mis-match in the dates.

(Speaking of dates perhaps we might also draw your attention to the date of this blog post. April 01 2008.)