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Free winter treats in store in line up of Scottish mountain greats

Everyone loves a bargain, and the Mountaineering Council of Scotland is offering something for nothing.

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 ...

Mountain accident blackspots: what's to be done?

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

Walker's heroine turns dragon-slayer in green battle

She was described this week as a walker’s heroine; now she’s taken to slaying dragons. Kate Ashbrook, general secretary of campaign group the O...

Lake District Friends wade in with watergate project

Volunteers have waded in to help protect an area of Cumbria destined to become part of an enlarged national park.

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.

Wainwright voice guides walkers to fell tops

Aficionados of the late Alfred Wainwright, cantankerous chronicler of the Lake District’s mountains, can now walk up Catbells with the voice of the author ringing in their ears.

Paths are vital for tourism, says Ramblers' campaigner

Well maintained public paths are vital for tourism, a former Ramblers’ chairman said. Kate Ashbrook, speaking at a meeting to celebrate the 20th ...

Holiday firm's cash for Highland paths

A holiday company has handed over cash to help maintain footpaths in the Highlands. HF Holidays runs breaks tailored to walkers and its customers r...

The highs and lows of our country's top spots

Most hillwalkers will identify with the mixture of panic, irrationality and fear that has, at some time, gripped all of us in the midst of a bad expedition up a mountain that just seems to have it in for you..

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.

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Kate joins Sir Ran in magazine's list of country greats

The woman once described as the ‘high priestess of the countryside’ is again listed among strange bedfellows in the latest rollcall of leading figures in Britain’s countryside.

Pennine welcome awaits walkers

Walkers are in for a warm welcome in a Pennine town next month, as it stages a weekend in celebration of its pioneering status.

Scots Ramblers edge towards breakaway

Ramblers in Scotland may follow their own path after their staffing was savagely cut on the orders of its London board.

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...

Government holds off action on 'lost' paths

The Government has given a stay of execution on the threat to thousands of unrecorded rights of way. Walkers, cyclists and horse riders may lose th...

Second walker drops in on rescuers at Lakes blackspot

A walker who fell at a Lake District accident blackspot found himself dropping in on rescuers who were already tending to a man who had fallen at the same place minutes earlier.