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Train crew brings child from windswept Snowdon summit

A two-year-old child was brought down from the summit of Wales’s highest mountain by train, after his father carried him to the peak in appalling weather.

01 September 2009

Naomi will keep an eye on national park

Walkers in the North York Moors have a new ranger to look after their landscape. Naomi Dillon has been appointed senior ranger for the northern are...

31 August 2009

Lake District Friends wade in with watergate project

Volunteers have waded in to help protect an area of Cumbria destined to become part of an enlarged national park.

31 August 2009

Hillwalkers restore student's trust after mountain test

A student’s experiment in trust has seen hillwalkers take the moral high ground. Paul Bellis Jones, a 24-year-old keen walker from Glan Conwy nea...

29 August 2009

Ring, ring: any Snowdon walkers lost something?

Police in Wales want you to give them a ring – if you’ve lost yours. Two pieces of jewellery, described as an engagement ring and either a wedd...

28 August 2009

Rescue team passes 100 mark four months early

A Lakeland mountain rescue team has reached its century – four months early. The Keswick team’s tally of full callouts passed the 100 mark this...

28 August 2009

Students rescued as weather hits expedition

Six students on a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition had to be rescued today after being caught out by bad weather in the Lake District.

26 August 2009

Farmers' signs will warn walkers of cattle danger

In a sign of the times, the Ramblers are teaming up with the National Farmers’ Union to warn walkers of the dangers of strolling with dogs through fields with cattle in them.

26 August 2009

Work starts on Pennine Bridleway link

Work has started on the latest link in building a new national trail up the backbone of England. The Pennine Bridleway will run for 330km (206 mile...

25 August 2009

All smiles in Happy Valley as council drops fight

Campaigners are urging a council to restore a popular path after it abandoned plans to move its route up a steep-sided valley.

31 August 2009

Circular routes prove natural for walkers

Ever found yourself unintentionally back where you started when out for a walk? You’re not alone: researchers in Germany have found a propensity ...

31 August 2009

Pennine welcome awaits walkers

Walkers are in for a warm welcome in a Pennine town next month, as it stages a weekend in celebration of its pioneering status.

29 August 2009

Woman airlifted after Nevis fall

A woman was airlifted from Britain’s highest mountain yesterday after falling and injuring herself.

29 August 2009

Waymarking would be'dumbing down the mountain'

The head of Scotland’s mountaineering body has taken to the airwaves to defend the nation’s objection to waymarking the hills north of the border.

28 August 2009

Rescuers search wrong fell after walkers change plans

Rescuers spent the morning searching the wrong Lakeland fell today for a missing couple who had changed their planned route.

28 August 2009

Walks will mark late Natural England head's birth date

A series of walks will take place in the autumn in memory of Natural England’s first head, who died of cancer, aged 59, earlier this year.

26 August 2009

Walker dies after 250m fall in Highlands

A man has died after a fall on a Lochaber mountain. The body of the walker, in his 50s, was found by members of the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team o...

25 August 2009

Boy serious after Cuillin fall

A 12-year-old boy is seriously ill in hospital after a fall on a Scottish mountain. The boy, from Sussex, fell between 15 and 30m (50 to 100ft) whi...

24 August 2009

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