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Mountain accident blackspots: what's to be done?

Are there places we should avoid in the mountains?...

Work starts on Pennine Bridleway link

Work has started on the latest link in building a new national trail up the backbone of England. The Pennine Bridleway will run for 330km (206 mile...

High-level thrills lead to the top of Pillar

Some Lakeland mountains draw you to them. They evoke a distant history and attendant mystery and whisper ‘climb me’: Helvellyn, Blencathra, Skidda...

Calendar Girl will meet Three Peaks walkers

A Calendar Girl who persuaded her Women’s Institute friends to pose naked in front of the camera will be the first member of the newly formed Friends of the Three Peaks.

Runners will take to the fells for 100-miler

More than 200 super-fit athletes will tackle one of the country’s toughest mountain races this weekend.

Two complete thousand-mile treks for charity

Like buses, you wait for ages for someone to tackle a challenge the whole length of Britain and along come two together.

Just a minute, Mr Naismith, can that be right?

Life, inevitably, has its ups and downs. And we hillwalkers love them. It’s why we set out, week after week, to slog up another fell or mountain,...

First-timer Jez storms to victory in Fellsman

Novice Fellsman entrant Jez Bragg took the winner’s trophy at his first attempt this weekend, storming home in sometimes appalling weather conditions to finish the course in less than 11 hours.

Falls provide cave rescuers with extreme action

Cave rescuers were kept busy this week with a tricky operation involving ropework to get to inaccessible areas of one of the Yorkshire Dales’ best known beauty spots.

Walkers invited to Coast to Coast celebration

Walkers are being invited to follow in the footsteps of Lakeland’s most venerated chronicler of the fells – in the Yorkshire Dales.

Friends together: walkers urged to put something back into Three Peaks

Standing proud in the south-western corner of the Yorkshire Dales national park are three fells that, for centuries, have been the centre of mankind’s curiosity.

Rescued again: students from 'regular customer' college

A group of 23 walkers which had to be led from a Lake District fell at the weekend comes from a college that is a ‘regular customer’ of mountain rescue services.

Fogle helps launch ethnic minority national park scheme

Antarctic adventurer Ben Fogle will today help launch a scheme to open up England’s national parks to ethnic minorities.

William joins Lakeland rescuers in Helvellyn ascent

Walkers setting out today to climb England’s third highest mountain could have been forgiven for thinking a major incident was underway on the fells.

Second ridge walker's death prompts safety calls

A man has died while tackling a Highlands ridge, just a month after a man perished at the same site in Glencoe.

Cave man airlifted from fell after fall

A man was airlifted from a Lake District fell today after injuring himself in a cave. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called to help the 18-yea...

'Dead chuffed' Bragg wins Fellsman at first attempt

The list of starters for one of the country’s most gruelling long-distance events was missing one significant number.

New winner guaranteed for Fellsman as 400 hit the hills

One of the toughest events in the fellrunning calendar takes place this weekend when close to 400 competitors will climb a total of 3,350m (11,000ft) during the route across the highest ground in the Yorkshire Dales.