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Further warnings to Lakeland walkers are more rain due

Lake District national park chiefs are urging walkers to avoid the area’s fells and low-level routes until flood water has subsided.

23 November 2009

Wainwright fans set up cash appeal for flood-hit county

The Wainwright Society has launched an appeal to help the stricken county of Cumbria after the worst floods in living memory.

23 November 2009

Dales walkers need to get out of their cars

More effort must be made to encourage walkers to leave their cars at home when they visit the Yorkshire Dales.

20 November 2009

Fan bids £10,000 for walk with Julia

A generous fan has bid £10,000 to go all the way to the top of a fell with walking pin-up Julia Bradbury.

19 November 2009

Peak projects up for anniversary cash

Walkers and climbers have the chance to have their say on which Peak District project will get a £5,000 boost.

16 November 2009

400 join walk to threatened national park land

Protestors joined a walk yesterday to land in Britain’s newest national park that is threatened by a sell-off by the local council.

15 November 2009

Shouts lead to Lakeland mountain search

Rescuers were involved in a search of England’s third highest mountain after reports of shouts for help yesterday.

15 November 2009

Experts offer women chance to get to grips with GPS

Women who want to find their way in the hills are being offered two courses without male interference.

14 November 2009

Campaigners 'jubilant' on double green-letter day

Typical! You wait more than 70 years for landmark outdoors laws and then two come along at once. Campaigners have been reacting to what the Open Sp...

13 November 2009

Mountain council head says it must support hillwalkers

The British Mountaineering Council must do more for its hillwalking fraternity, according to its president.

23 November 2009

Police warn walkers to stay off Lakeland fells as rain continues

Police in Cumbria are advising walkers to stay off the Lake District fells this week following unprecedented weather that has seen towns flooded and has cost a policeman his life.

20 November 2009

Mountain show will go on, despite the flood

Organisers of one of Britain’s top mountain festivals have vowed that the event will go ahead, despite floods in the town where it is to be held.

19 November 2009

OS mapping to be freed – but not for the outdoors

Prime Minister Gordon Brown today announced an opening up of public access to Ordnance Survey maps. Speaking at a Downing Street seminar, Mr Brown ou...

17 November 2009

Cancer man Daryl will recreate Tom's Coast to Coast effort

A cancer patient will follow in the steps of one of his inspirational friends who completed the Coast to Coast walk while in the terminal stages of the disease.

15 November 2009

Duke's student airlifted after Lakeland fall

A Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expeditioner was airlifted from a Cumbrian fell today after falling and injuring his leg.

15 November 2009

Body of Tomaž Humar found on Himalayan peak

One of the world’s best known climbers has died on a Himalayan mountain. Rescuers on Langtan Lirung reported today they had found the body of Slo...

14 November 2009

Fiennes interview is highlight of TV Everest evening

He conquered Everest at the third attempt, scaled the north face of the Eiger despite suffering from vertigo and having had a double heart bypass, and he bears a grudge about being bullied at Eton.

14 November 2009

Top author says fear stops people's use of the outdoors

Once, it was landowners’ fencing that kept people from the great outdoors; now, mental barriers are stopping people from enjoying the countryside.

12 November 2009

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