A bit about Mountainfeet...
Mountainfeet is the new name of Paul Braithwaite Outdoor Sports, which for over 30 years has offered specialist, friendly service to outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and levels of expertise. Over the last few years we have been particularly concentrating on the footwear side of our business and feel confident that we can now provide a fitting service second to none for our quality stock of walking, climbing and running shoes and boots.

Paul Braithwaite Outdoor Sports was founded by Paul himself back in 1975 after his return from the successful Everest South West Face expedition where he was instrumental in solving the key to the climb along with his friend Nick Estcourt. After a period of several years Paul found himself spending more and more time running his roped access company, Vertical Access and eventually sold the shop in 1999.

Today, Mountainfeet is owned and run by Simon Taylor who has a professional background in skiing and mountaineering. He is ably assisted by Marcus Buckley, Phil Sneyd and Jane Gleeson along with several excellent part time staff who step in as the need arises. The lads have worked at the shop for several years and their combined specialities are climbing, walking and mountaineering. Jane brings her experience as a runner to the shop – we now stock an impressive range of off road running shoes.

As a team, we also have experience in mountain biking, fell running, paragliding, skiing, ski-touring, sailing, diving, windsurfing and canoeing and so can deal with most enquiries!

Our major speciality is in expert footwear fitting – Si and the team are very committed to educating customers on the benefits of knowing more about their feet and good fitting practice. To this end we offer a much more comprehensive service than most other footwear shops – see our footwear fitting method page.

We were also privileged to have had the company of Cap the Collie Dog in the shop for many years. His loss in August 2010 devastated us but you'll see loads of pictures of him in the shop and here on our website. He was a real free spirit who was happiest on the hills, running beside us on our mountain bikes or keeping us company on walks all over the UK. Cap was a stunning character who added a certain "je ne sais quoi" to life at Mountainfeet and is sorely missed but very fondly remembered.

Our shop is a local shop where the emphasis is on expertise and courteous service - two qualities that seem in very short supply these days. In order to preserve those values we'd just say one thing;

USE US OR LOSE US –
YOUR LOCAL SHOP NEEDS YOU...