It would be hard to follow Southwestern trails without cairns. These little piles of rock help guide us along washes and into canyons, across folds of slickrock and timeless, high desert landscapes.

Tourists in the Scottish Highlands could be quickening erosion with their “meditative” and “artistic” stone-stacking. After appearing in the film “The BFG” in 2016, Fairy Glen on the Isle of Skye has ...

It won’t beat the FA Cup final in terms of audience share. But isn’t it cool and kind of mesmerising to see people stack stones so precariously? Today was the second day of the Second European stone ...

Walk onto many of Cornwall's beaches and you'll see piles of perfectly Instagrammable stone stacks, carefully balanced all around you. These gravity-defying stone sculptures have become so popular ...

Sculpture artists gathered in Scotland on Sunday to compete for the weighty title of champion stone stacker, in a quirky competition launched last year. More than 30 participants from America, Spain, ...

The Blue Planet Society says stone stacking near beaches is ruining beauty spots and disturbing the breeding grounds of shore-nesting birds. The organisation said the practice has reached “epidemic ...

THEY loom up from the ground along our coastlines, appearing in the landscape like strange, abstracted figures watching our beaches. Some shorelines look like busy rock festivals, crowded with forms, ...

Overall winner, Pedro Duran from Spain, competes in the European Stone Stacking Championships 2018 (AFP) Dunbar, United Kingdom: Sculpture artists gathered in Scotland on Sunday to compete for the ...

Sculpture artists gathered in Scotland on Sunday to compete for the weighty title of champion stone stacker, in a quirky competition launched last year. More than 30 participants from America, Spain, ...

STONE stacking will return to East Lothian in April when the second European championships are held in Dunbar. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...