Julia will join Wainwright fundraising challenge

Television presenter Julia Bradbury will climb a Lake District peak to help raise funds for rescuers later this year.

Police name Dungeon Ghyll fall victim

Police have named the man who fell to his death in the Lake District yesterday. He was Paul Percy, 44, a teacher at Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkb...

Prince begins search-and-rescue helicopter training

If you are unlucky enough to have an accident on the Snowdonia mountains and need the services of the RAF’s paraffin budgie, you might instead end up with a Golden Osprey.

Campaigners fight a bridge too far on national trail

Footpath campaigners are fighting plans which would mean walkers on a national trail had to wait while a university rowing club launched its boats.

Hats, heads, and heat: medics debunk decades-old myth

It has been an enduring tenet of mountain wellbeing: cover your head, because you lose 60 per cent of your body heat through it; or 80 per cent; or 110 per cent… Well, a pair of scientists with far greater knowledge of physiology than anyone we’ve ever met have bebunked that ‘fact’ and we now have to relegate the old head radiator story to that of myth.

Everest doctors had near-fatal oxygen levels

Newly published results from the medical expedition that went to the summit of Everest revealed that one of the mountaineers had near-fatal oxygen levels in his blood – yet still survived.

Do not disturb, pleads bird charity as freeze continues

Conservation bodies are appealing  to walkers to keep bird disturbance to a minimum as temperatures plummet.

Charity meeting seeks solution to Nevis challenge problems

The problems caused by so many booted feet tramping up Britain’s highest mountain will come to a head later this month with a summit meeting between charity representatives and Ben Nevis’s authorities.

Mountain rescue boat in action after walker's fall

A Lake District mountain rescue team took to the water to help an injured walker. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team used its boat today, Monday, to r...