Ramblers's walking challenge to check footpaths

Are you up for a challenge? The Ramblers’ Association (RA) wants you to walk every single path and bridleway in England and Wales – and yo...

Dales bus service links with walks this winter

Do you feel an odd pang of guilt as your foot presses the throttle on the way to yet another car-borne expedition into the high country?The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority may have the answer.

Everest teens to tackle pole-to-pole trek

Britain’s two youngest Everest summiteers now plan to go pole to pole.Rob Gauntlett and James Hooper will tackle the route from the North Pole to the South Pole without using motorised transport en route.The two 19-year-olds, who in May this year became the youngest Britons to get to the highest point on earth, are now planning the 17,000-mile trip ski-ing, walking, cycling and sailing the length of the globe, via north and south America and finally to Antarctica.They hope to ski from the North Pole to the edge of the ice pack, where they will use an ice-breaker yacht to reach Newfoundland.

Three Peaks cyclo-cross race this Sunday

This weekend sees the 45th annual Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross Race in Yorkshire. Last year’s winner Rob Jebb will be defending his title – one...

Everest volunteers needed - do you fit the bill?

Doctors are looking for volunteers willing to help high-level medical research – at Everest base camp.The medical team is searching for 208 fit recruits to join in the 23-day experiment at the 5,300m camp early in 2007.

Cash offered to adventurers following in Bill's footsteps

Conservation body the John Muir Trust (JMT) has set up a memorial fund to help those undertaking a venture which involves travel to wild places, is adventurous, of educational or scientific significance – and be a life-changing experience leading to a commitment to practical action to conserve wild places.That’s no small task, but if you think you’re up for it, it may be worth applying for a Go – And Do It.

Ramblers Association in footpath court battle

The Ramblers Association (RA), guardian of the right to continue to wear your walking breeches tucked inside your socks, is fighting an important legal case that could have implications for all those who love the outdoors.It’s all a bit legalistic, as the law tends to be, but basically, landowners were given the right in a High Court case in 1999 to claim there was no right of way under the ‘20-years’ use’ rule if they had a scrap of paper telling their gamekeeper to boot off the great unwashed, even if said gamekeeper never followed the instruction.

Rob's mission is no rubbish idea

Keep your eyes and ears open for an emerging new British superstar. This one’s not a reject from The X Factor or a monosyllabic egotist from Big...

New maps issued for Scottish Explorers

The Ordnance Survey (OS) has issued updated Explorer maps for two areas of Scotland.The 1:25,000-scale maps cover Stranraer, Kirkcudbright, Castle Douglas and Dumfries and a further area in the East including Edinburgh, Dunbar, North Berwick and the Lammermuir Hills.Maps come off the Ordnance Survey's printing press (left)22 maps have been revised and are on sale at £7.49 for unlaminated versions, at the usual outlets as well as from the OS website. .