How an outdoor retailer survived lockdown: a service centre, a woman's eye and explainer videos

Innovation and a keen eye on online sales have helped independent retailer Trekitt survive lockdown...

Review: Life of a Mountain Helvellyn by Terry Abraham

Terry Abraham’s ‘final love letter to the Lakes’ is a soaring, sprawling epic film capturing the Lake District national park’s most popular mountain and those who live, work and play around it, and who are drawn to the fell and its rocky challenges.

Ingleborough Hall steps into the stretch zone for outdoor learning during lockdown

Activities at an outdoor education centre in the Yorkshire Dales came to an abrupt end with the onset of the Covid-19 crisis and its accompanying lockdown and social distancing.

Six days, six hours, four minutes: how Paul Tierney broke the Wainwrights running record

The author Alfred Wainwright took 13 years to write his seven-volume series of Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, meticulously researching and detailing the 214 mountains he chose as worthy of ascent.

Winter comes to Lakeland as three felltop assessors gear up for a new season

December marks the beginning of meteorological winter; it’s also when winter officially comes to the Lake District with the start of the felltop assessor service.

Climber Shauna Coxsey puts injury behind her with sights on Olympic glory

In a little more than 18 months, the profile of climbing will gain a massive boost when millions of television’s worldwide audience will be able to view top proponents of the sport fight for Olympic medals.

Climber Mick Fowler looks forward to a return to Himalaya after his most taxing year

He has won the ‘mountaineering Oscar’, the Piolet d’Or three times and has posted numerous first ascents both in Britain and abroad, but 2018 has proved one of the most challenging of Mick Fowler’s life.

England has a new mountain: Miller Moss. Now go find it

England has a new mountain for hillbaggers to add to their list. Amateur surveyors John Barnard, Graham Jackson and Jim Bloomer lugged their profes...

British Mountaineering Council's new president Lynn Robinson: lots of work to do

In a year when women’s issues were firmly in the public eye, the British Mountaineering Council’s members elected the organisation’s first female president.