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Lomond core paths on view for walkers

A Scottish national park has introduced an online map showing all its core paths. The Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Authority completed...

05 August 2010

Walkers needed to boot up for charity challenge

A conservation charity is looking for hardy walkers to help it raise cash by tackling a 100km challenge.

04 August 2010

New footpath will make Dales Way safer for walkers

Walkers on the Dales Way will be safer after a national park authority negotiated an off-road right of way near the end of the 129km (80-mile) route.

03 August 2010

Doubts remain over future of English coast path

The Government body responsible for setting up coastal access around England has denied the project has been shelved as a result of coalition cuts.

03 August 2010

Is the English coastal path for the chop?

With friends like this, do ramblers and walkers really need enemies? An unnamed former Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs minister ...

01 August 2010

Girl airlifted to hospital after chain-walk fall

An 11-year-old girl was airlifted to hospital today after falling on a recently reopened section of the Fife Coastal Path.

01 August 2010

Call for walkers to top fells to mark scheme's end

Bosses of a Lakeland landscape scheme are looking for volunteer walkers to top off the project in style before it closes.

31 July 2010

Two in court after outdoors store raid deaths

Two men will appear before Cardiff Magistrates next week following a major burglary at an outdoors store in the city in which two men died on a nearby railway line.

31 July 2010

Views, kisses and punch-ups: welcome to The Great Outdoors

The tribulations of a group of walkers hit the small screen today with the start of a comedy drama set in a dysfunctional rambling club.

27 July 2010

Ridge may be named after Everest hero Hillary

A ridge on New Zealand’s highest mountain may be named after the first man to summit Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary topped out on Everest with Sherp...

05 August 2010

Walkers urged to object to Lakeland zip-wire

A conservation charity is urging walkers to back its objection to the proposed zip-wire in the Lake District.

03 August 2010

Spyke will head to Dartmoor for OMM event

The man who set a new munro record in June will be among starters in this year’s Original Mountain Marathon.

03 August 2010

Exhausted woman carried from fell after night search

Two Lake District mountain rescue teams spent six hours in a night-time search on the fells for a woman who had become exhausted while out walking.

02 August 2010

Quids in: Nevis walkers to face charges?

Would you be prepared to pay to walk up Britain’s highest mountain? Walkers could soon be asked to put their hands in their pockets before they h...

01 August 2010

Welsh gear firm warns climbers to stop using cam

Llanberis-based climbing gear manufacturer DMM has warned climbers to stop using one of its cams that could develop cracks in its metal.

31 July 2010

Mosaic champions lead national parks push

Community champions from the Mosaic project have been out and about in Britain’s national parks this week encouraging wider use of the country’s best landscapes.

31 July 2010

Nevis walkers' chance to put something back

Mountain lovers are being urged to put something back with a spruce-up of Britain’s highest mountain.

29 July 2010

Man airlifted after Award student rescue

A seven-hour rescue operation was launched to rescue seven students on a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition.

27 July 2010

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