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iROC races will test runners and mountain bikers again

Entries for an innovative adventure race which combines running, orienteering and mountain biking have opened, with organisers promising an even better event than the inaugural competition this year.

Climbdown as council reviews national park land sell-off

A council in West Sussex is to look again at its decision to sell off land in the new South Downs national park after an outcry from residents and campaign groups.

Artist's quest reveals state of Lakes paths

An artist’s quest to recreate the sketches of the Lake District’s celebrated chronicler Alfred Wainwright has uncovered the extent of footpath erosion in the area.

Welsh venue for mountain marathon at eye of storm

Organisers of the Original Mountain Marathon will have been keeping a weather eye on the forecasts this week in the run up to the 2009 which starts tomorrow, Saturday.

It's snowing, so wise up to winter

It’s snowing! Or, at least, it has been. Reports from the Mountaineering Council of Scotland say the first snow of the season has been spotted on th...

Mallory, munros and Archer: the view from the Corrie

You’ve seen him on the telly, now you can read his magazine. Fresh from his appearance loafing on a mountainside with Nicholas Crane, grough gues...

Hillwalkers restore student's trust after mountain test

A student’s experiment in trust has seen hillwalkers take the moral high ground. Paul Bellis Jones, a 24-year-old keen walker from Glan Conwy nea...

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.

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.

400 join walk to threatened national park land

Protestors joined a walk yesterday to land in Britain’s newest national park that is threatened by a sell-off by the local council.

Protest follows national park sell-off plan

The leader of a national conservation body will speak next week at a protest rally against the selling off of downland in England’s newest national park.

Bag Crianlarich's twin peaks in one day

The giant twin peaks of Crianlarich, Ben More and Stob Binnein, are a great destination which, on a clear day, will give a fabulous vista of the Highland mountains..

Get into winter gear as the nights draw in

Those balmy June days are becoming a distant memory and this weekend Britain’s summer comes to an official end.

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..

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.

Hill sleuths plan munro announcement

Fresh from their television appearance with walking pin-up Julia Bradbury, the country’s three amateur hill sleuths will be stepping into the limelight again with an announcement on Scotland’s munros.

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...

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.