Police and rangers team up to deter illegal trail motorists

National park rangers teamed up with police in an effort to stop bikers and drivers damaging trails. Police officers from Derbyshire and South York...

Walker dies after Lake District fall

A walker died yesterday after falling on a Lakeland fell. The 44-year-old man from Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria was with a friend in Great Langdale whe...

Hill Walking Essentials DVD: advice to help you on the hills

The number of rescues we report here on grough is testament to the potential dangers of walking on Britain’s hills and mountains.

Gable death walker named

Police have named the woman who died after a fall on Great Gable last Friday. Kirsty Densham, 35, of Oxford, was scrambling on Westmorland Crag, wi...

Two Dales events offer 100km challenge to walkers

Feeling lethargic after all that turkey and booze? How about a little stroll to get rid of the festive languor – say 100km? Yes, it’s time to s...

Charity pair will attempt 'British' Everest challenge

Two charity fundraisers will attempt to climb the height of Everest – without leaving the British Isles.

Hats, heads, and heat: medics debunk decades-old myth

It has been an enduring tenet of mountain wellbeing: cover your head, because you lose 60 per cent of your body heat through it; or 80 per cent; or 110 per cent… Well, a pair of scientists with far greater knowledge of physiology than anyone we’ve ever met have bebunked that ‘fact’ and we now have to relegate the old head radiator story to that of myth.

Rescue teams vie for £2,000 top prize

One lucky mountain rescue team could be £2,000 better off – with your help. Nine teams are in the running to pick up the Team of the Year Award ...

Solitude beckons on the Howgills' velvet slopes

Quite unlike their near cousins the Yorkshire Dales and the Cumbrian Fells, the velvety bumps of the Howgill Fells have a character all of their own.