Mountain experts plead with hillgoers to plan for winter trips

Mountaineering experts are pleading with hillgoers to go prepared for winter after a series of tragic incidents over the past few weeks.

Mountaineers demand BBC puts record straight after Newsnight discussion

Mountaineers are demanding the BBC puts the record straight after a Newsnight discussion in which a freelance journalist called for access to Scotland’s mountains to be restricted.

RAF Squadron Leader Rimon Than named as Cairngorms avalanche victim

A serving RAF officer has been named as one of the men who died in the Cairngorms avalanche yesterday.

Two die and one critical after Cairngorm avalanche

Two people have died after being caught in an avalanche in the Cairngorms. The man and woman were airlifted to hospital after the incident in the C...

Two still missing and one airlifted to hospital after Cairngorms avalanche

A man has been airlifted from the site of an avalanche in the Cairngorm Mountains. Police said searches are continuing for two other people missing...

Gold for Haglöfs Roca II softshell as Swedish firm bags four ISPO awards

Haglöfs' Roca II Hood was judged a gold award winner at Munich trade show ISPO, where outdoor industries parade the upcoming gear that will appear in shops this year.

Avalanche victim Chris Bell's friends raise £10,000 with planned bike race

A friend of one of the four hillwalkers killed in the avalanche in Glencoe at the weekend will take part in a gruelling mountain-biking marathon in his memory.

Christopher Bell, Tom Chesters and Una Finnegan named as Glencoe fatalities

Police have named three of the four young mountaineers who died yesterday in the avalanche in Glencoe.

Four Glencoe climbers confirmed dead after Bidean nam Bian avalanche

Police have confirmed that four climbers have died in today’s avalanche on Bidean nam Bian. Northern Constabulary said two men and two women died...