A bit about Mountainfeet...
Mountainfeet is the new shop 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 and climbing boots and shoes.

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, the Mountainfeet shop is owned and run by Simon Taylor who has a professional background in skiing and mountaineering. He is ably assisted by Marcus Buckley and Phil Sneyd along with several excellent part time staff who step in as the need arises. Both lads have worked at the shop for several years and their combined specialities are climbing, walking and mountaineering.

As a team, we also have experience in mountain biking, fell running, paragliding, skiing, ski-touring, sailing, windsurfing and canoeing and so can deal with most enquiries! We are currently putting more stock into the two speciality areas of fell running and ski touring – if you're interested in either then please let us know what kit you'd like to see and we'll endeavour to order it in.

Our major speciality is in expert footwear fitting – Si is 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.

Also in the shop most days is Cap the collie dog who is a bit of a character to say the least! He's also a full on outdoor enthusiast too and isn't really happy indoors even though he's got his own sofa to chill out on!!! On the odd occasion a customer isn't keen on dogs he's banished to the office with Lucy Hall, our very adept accounts lass who feeds him biscuits when he turns his sad pleading eyes on her...

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...