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Meeting will mark Walkers Are Welcome growth

A conference next month will celebrate the growing Walkers Are Welcome movement. The scheme has seen a trebling of towns awarded the status in the ...

25 September 2009

Cyclists take over Three Peaks for annual event

Three Yorkshire Dales fells, normally the domain of walkers and runners, will this weekend be a sea of colourful Lycra-clad cyclists as the annual Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross race hits the fells.

25 September 2009

Hiking in the raw beckons for Harz walkers

Walkers who love the feel of the wind in the Trossachs can indulge themselves on a new trail in Germany.

24 September 2009

Ramblers welcome scrambling decision

Walkers’ representatives are celebrating after a council threw out plans to turn a Welsh beauty spot into a motorbike scrambling area.

24 September 2009

Glyder death-fall woman named

An inquest was today opened and adjourned following the death of a woman on the Idwal Slabs in Snowdonia.

23 September 2009

Mountaineering council seeks IT volunteers

The search is on for keen walkers or climbers who have computing skills, to help staff at the Manchester office of the British Mountaineering Council.

22 September 2009

Woman dies in Snowdonia fall

A woman has died in a fall in Snowdonia. The incident happened this evening on the Idwal Slabs near the base of Glyder Fawr in the Ogwen Valley. Ea...

21 September 2009

Walker dies in Highland fall

A man has died after a fall in the Torridon Highlands. The walker died on Beinn Eighe after a party of four spent the night on the 1,010m (3,314ft)...

21 September 2009

Euro-cash means green light for moors restoration

A massive project to regenerate some of the country’s most important moorland will go ahead after the European Union pledged £5½m to safeguard stretches of upland in the Peak District and South Pennines.

17 September 2009

Wainwright calendar will help Fix the Fells

The Wainwright Society, aficionados of the chronicler of the Cumbrian fells, is to produce its first ever pictorial calendar.

25 September 2009

Cow attack puts Dales Way walker in hospital

A walker was hospitalised after being attacked by a cow in the Yorkshire Dales. The incident happened as 86-year-old Ken Honeyman was on the Dales ...

25 September 2009

Warning for walkers as bridge is swept away

Walkers in the Cairngorms are being warned that a bridge in a popular glen has been washed away. The Carnachuin Bridge in Glen Feshie was swept awa...

24 September 2009

Council urged to drop footpath plan

Campaigners are urging a Welsh council to drop plans which, they say, will lead to the neglect of some of its public paths.

23 September 2009

Walkers can join Everest pair on Lakeland walks

Walkers have the rare chance to join hikes led by two of mountaineering’s best known names this weekend.

23 September 2009

Welsh peak will bear name of 'lost princess'

A Welsh peak will join a family circle this weekend, following a concerted campaign to have it renamed.

22 September 2009

Mallory, munros and Archer: the view from the Corrie

You’ve seen him on the telly, now you can read his magazine. Fresh from his appearance loafing on a mountainside with Nicholas Crane, grough gues...

21 September 2009

Nevis rubbish drives volunteers bananas

It’s enough to drive a mountaineer bananas: Britain’s highest peak is being blighted by a thousand discarded skins as thoughtless walkers toss away the remains of their energy-boosting snack.

19 September 2009

TV feature will examine munro obsession

Mountain-loving television viewers, who have faced a dearth of content over the summer, can again set their recorders this weekend.

16 September 2009

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