Mountain council objects to windfarm overlooking Loch Lomond

The body representing mountaineers in Scotland has objected to plans for a windfarm just outside a national park.

Alpine Club climbing stars will head festival event

The world’s oldest mountaineering club will move north – temporarily – for an evening in the company of festival goers later this year.

Rescued challenge walkers return to mark team's 1,000th callout

A grand day out in the Yorkshire Dales turned into a memorable event for two women who entered the record books as the subjects of a rescue team’s 1,000th callout.

Scottish long-distance trails feature in new guidebooks

A guidebook to a new long-distance trail is the culmination of six years’ work by the author. The Mary Queen of Scots Way is a 172km (107-mile) r...

Pennine website has more than 200 walking and cycling routes

Walkers and cyclists heading for the Pennine hills are being offered a choice of more than 200 routes set up on a website supported by a rural regeneration agency.

Trust loses out in bid to buy Borders 'wild heart' land

A conservation charity has lost out in its bid to buy an area of the Scottish Borders which was described as the ‘wild heart of the Southern Uplands’.

Salmond will launch writer McNeish's Scottish National Trail

One of the country’s leading outdoors writers and broadcasters revealed he will be working with the BBC this year to film a project that will follow a route from Scotland’s border to its north-west extremity.

Walker airlifted after Lakeland fell injury

A walker was airlifted to hospital after injuring herself on a Lakeland fell. The woman was walking in the Lad Stones area of Wetherlam today, Satu...

Wainwright fans head to the fells to help wildlife charity

A series of challenge walks by aficionados of author Alfred Wainwright will help a charity’s bid to preserve and extend an upland plant.