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The outdoors world in 2012: our backward glance at the year past

Our rearward glance at a news-packed 2012 includes, as always, tragedy as well as uplifting stories of the great outdoors, and a few oddities.

Call to demolish Glencoe home tainted by Jimmy Savile's ownership

A councillor has suggested a Highland cottage once owned by one of the key figures in Scottish mountaineering should be demolished because it has become the target for vandals.

Sir Chris Bonington in Westminster call to get Britons outdoors

Everest summiteer Sir Chris Bonington is stepping into the corridors of power to urge people to get out and enjoy the great outdoors.

Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival celebrates 10th year

An upcoming festival will celebrate its tenth year of armchair adventuring. The Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival hopes to attract more than 3,000 o...

Sir Chris will abseil from London's The Shard for Outward Bound

Everest summiteer Sir Chris Bonington will be scaling the heights of western Europe’s tallest building when he joins fellow charity fundraisers in abseiling from its pinnacle.

Mountain rescuers aid felltop Paralympic torch ceremony

Mountain rescuers and supporters helped light the Paralympic flame on top of England’s highest peak.

Sir Chris joins walkers in raising £2,000 with Morecambe Bay walk

Mountaineering elder statesman Sir Chris Bonington helped raise £2,000 for a Lake District charity in a walk across Morecambe Bay’s sands.

Bonington takes Olympic torch to Snowdon summit, by the easy route

He has made memorable ascents of some of the world’s most difficult mountain climbs, but today Sir Chris Bonington chose one of the easier routes up Wales’s highest peak with the Olympic torch.

Alpine Club climbing stars will head festival event

The world’s oldest mountaineering club will move north – temporarily – for an evening in the company of festival goers later this year.

Bonington Olympic torch auction raises £13,500 for Community Action Nepal

A charity auction of the Olympic torch carried by Sir Chris Bonington to the summit of Snowdon has raised £13,500.

Bonington's Olympic torch auctioned to raise cash for Nepal charity

The Olympic torch that Everest summiteer Sir Chris Bonington took to the top of Wales’s highest mountain is being auctioned to raise cash for a charity that helps Nepalese porters and their families.

BioLite CampStove picks up outdoor writers' award for innovation

Outdoor writers and photographers have awarded their annual innovation award to a stove which uses twigs and pine cones as fuel to cook backpackers’ meals, while at the same time recharging electronic devices.

Ramblers tell Whitehall: set up charity to look after England's national trails

Britain’s biggest walking campaigning organisation called for the setting up of a charity trust to oversee England’s national trails.

Government asks for public's views on forests' future after panel report

The Government is asking for the public’s views on England’s forests and woodlands, almost two years after its controversial plan to sell off publicly owned woodland provoked huge opposition.

Joss leads Olympic torchbearers to new Lakeland high

Three Olympic relay representatives have taken their torches to a new high. Fellrunning legend Joss Naylor was one of three torchbearers to make th...

Sir Chris will join Morecambe Bay walkers to aid charity

An elder statesman of British mountaineering will join a walk across Morecambe Bay to help raise cash for a conservation charity.

Running legend Joss in mountain boundary run to mark diamond jubilee

A parish chairman will beat the bounds of his area to raise funds for two local causes. But this will be no stroll in the countryside, as the bound...