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Langdale The walker who died after falling from Jack’s Rake on Pavey Ark last week has been named.

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David Kelsey, 54, of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, suffered multiple injuries after falling 45m (150ft) from the grade-one scramble in Great Langdale, in the Lake District. He was tackling the route with three companions last Wednesday, 16 July, when the fall happened.

Three airlifted from Snowdonia peaks
A Three Peaks Challenge walker was airlifted from Snowdon after suffering exhaustion.

Peak moors project goes through to lottery final
A moorland conservation project is a step closer to winning a lottery award.

Climber dies after Langdale fall
A climber has died after falling from a Lake District crag.

Camping on the up, but outdoor group's sales still down
Major outdoor group Blacks Leisure saw its sales fall more than five per cent in recent weeks, despite a rise in the sale of tents and other camping gear attributed to Britons abandoning expensive air travel for canvas holidays at home.

Woman saves climbing buddy after Skye fall
A climber was hailed a hero after she stopped her companion drowning after a fall on a Skye sea cliff.

Second policeman dies after Snowdon discovery
A police officer has died after being rescued from Snowdon, close to where the body of Manchester

Campaigners lose drain-path battle
Rights-of-way campaigners have expressed dismay at a refusal to stop a footpath being moved.

Tribute paid to Buachaille fall victim
Police have named a climber whose body was found on Buachaille Etive M

Mountain cellists plan peak performances
The hills will be alive with the sound of music next week as a trio of classical musicians tackle a mountain challenge

Man dies after fall from Jack's Rake
A walker has died after falling 45m (150ft) in Langdale, in the Lake District.

'Antediluvian' Perrin is made university fellow
Climber and writer Jim Perrin has been awarded an honorary fellowship by a Welsh university.

Climber dies in Glencoe
The body of a climber has been found on a mountain in Glencoe.

Rescued mountain bikers were 'poorly equipped'
A group of mountain bikers which had to be rescued from a Lakeland fell was criticised for venturing on to the fells without proper gear.

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Calderdale's moorland green lungs

Cotton grass and wind turbines on Ovenden Moor

The South Pennine moors lie on the doorstep of some of the most industrialised towns and cities of northern England. They are the green lungs where millworkers once escaped the pollution and grime of some of the grimmest environments imaginable, and where millowners erected mock baronial piles with the fruits of their workers’ labour.

The mills are mainly silent now, either converted into flats and galleries or demolished. But mankind’s influence is still everywhere to be seen, from the civil engineering works which brought clean water to the Victorian industrial towns, to the new engineering which, like it or not, is harnessing wind power on the prominent moorlands overlooking Calderdale.

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