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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.
In search of the top of a 'meaningless' Cairngorms top
It has been described as a meaningless hill. So why go in search of the true summit of this unloved munro top?...
Will new 4G broadband mean the end of reliable GPS navigation?
It has become essential to modern life and is responsible for European lorry drivers unexpectedly visiting English country lanes, and hapless motorists being ordered around by Victor Meldrew.
Of mines and men: hill sleuths settle the score on county's top
Is a slag heap really the highest point of an East Midlands county, or is it somewhere even less impressive.
2010 in retrospect: join us in a look back at the outdoors year
As the year draws to a close, we take a look back at the events that have shaped the events in 2010. From tragedy to triumph, heartbreak to ecstasy, t...
Survey puts Welsh mountain into 1,000m 'super league'
The league of Welsh ‘super mountains’ gained a new member today with the news that a survey of a Snowdonia peak revealed its true height to be more than 1,000m Glyder Fawr, Wales’s fifth highest mountain, has been promoted to the super league following measurements by hill sleuths Graham Jackson, John Barnard and Myrddyn Phillips.
It's official: trio reveal Tryfan's true height
Thousands of boots have tramped its rocky inclines and the bravest mountaineers have made the leap from Adam to Eve, the twin columns of rock that adorn its summit.
Everest's height finally settled – sort of
In 1852, an Indian surveyor and mathematician Radhanath Sikdar, clearly calculated that a distant peak in the closed kingdom of Nepal – formerly known as Peak B and then renamed Peak XV – was the highest in the world.
Tragedy and triumph: the outdoor world in 2009 (continued)
As the decade which seems to have become known as the noughties packed its bags and prepared for the trip into history, its final days had a familiar ring: winter catching out climbers and walkers, with tragic consequences..
Corbett survey by hill sleuths leads to separation of Highland twins
A survey by a pair of hill sleuths led to the separation of Highland twins. Two peaks above Glen Shiel that had previously been classified as a twi...
Hill-baggers' list celebrates 10 years of peak accuracy
What drives a walker to gird his or her loins and huff and puff up the mountains and hills of Great Britain.
To climb or not to climb: survey leaves munrobaggers with dilemma
Munrobaggers close to finishing their round with an eye on the remote Fisherfield Forest may wish to delay their project as uncertainty surrounds the status of one of the listed peaks.
Dales hill added to list after survey confirms heights
A team of hillwalking enthusiasts has added a Yorkshire Dales fell to a hill list after deciding it measures up to the mark.
Hill-list couple complete third mountain round
The couple who gave their names to a whole class of hills have completed an impressive third round of all the mountains in England and Wales.
Will Welsh peak be promoted to metric super league?
Wales could have a new ‘super mountain’ after a group of amateur hill sleuths turned their attention to a Snowdonia peak.
Tryfan's final reckoning looms as surveyors head for summit
It’s the summer weekend with the longest daylight hours, which means, almost certainly, the mountain rescue teams of the western Lake District will be looking forward to interrupted sleep as hapless Three Peaks Challengers struggle to find their way on the felltops.
Tryfan's status at risk as hill sleuths plan survey
One of the shapeliest of north Wales’s 3,000ft mountains could soon lose its status. Tryfan, the perfectly mountain-shaped peak in the Ogwen Vall...
Tragedy and triumph: the outdoor world in 2009
As the decade which seems to have become known as the noughties packed its bags and prepared for the trip into history, its final days had a familiar ring: winter catching out climbers and walkers, with tragic consequences..
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