Rescuers gathered this morning to celebrate a record-breaking year.

Crews from the Royal Navy’s search and rescue helicopter base at HMS Gannet have mounted an unprecedented number of missions to rescue people in distress, about half of which have been on mountains

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A mountain expert has warned walkers to take care on Britain’s highest mountain after prolonged winter snows left important navigation aids virtually invisible.

Heather Morning, mountain safety adviser with the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, said cairns erected recently have been almost buried, prompting the need for extra vigilance to avoid Ben Nevis’s 700m (2,300ft) cliffs.

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Membership of Britain’s representative mountaineering body continued to climb last year.

Of course they did, that’s why they join the British Mountaineering Council – but actually the numbers signing up to the Manchester-based organisation rose to a new record: more than 70,000 – five per cent up on the previous year’s total

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Scotland’s mountaineering chief is urging the hillwalking and climbing community to back two MSPs fighting against unsightly tracks on the country’s mountains.

David Gibson, chief officer of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, says the response to an online petition so far has been ‘pathetic’. MSPs Sarah Boyack and Peter Peacock are seeking the support of outdoor enthusiasts to put pressure on the Scottish Government

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Ever woken up with a crazy idea? Personally, I find it an effort even to realise what day it is, but one young woman did indeed awake with a dream.

Bonita Norris decided she wanted to be the youngest British woman to summit Everest. The drawback was, she’d never climbed before. But on 3 April she sets off for Nepal, hopeful for a May summit.

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