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Women climbers will top Dundee film festival bill

There’s a strong female presence at this year’s Dundee Mountain Film Festival, with top French climber Catherine Destivelle topping the bill, and South African mountaineer Cathy O’Dowd joining musician Anni Hogan.

Fears for outdoors as Osborne announces spending cuts

Local authorities and the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs all came out big losers in today’s announcement of the results of the comprehensive spending review by Chancellor George Osborne.

Whernside: Yorkshire's highest point, with a hint of Cumbria

England’s biggest county can claim a few records, but when it comes to the heights of its hills, Yorkshire’s record books can be a little confusing.

Your chance to win the fact-packed little book that every hillwalker should have

No-one knows the mountains better than the rescue teams who turn out to help those in trouble, and those nice people at Mountain Rescue England & Wales are offering five lucky grough readers the chance to win a copy of Call Out Mountain Rescue?.

Ramblers urge workers to pull on their trainers and get fit

The Ramblers in Scotland have added their weight to a campaign to get the whole of Scotland in its trainers this week.

Moorland challenge helps rescue team

More than 200 walkers took to the Pennine moors to help mountain rescuers. Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team will be an estimated £2,800 better off af...

Campaigners urge rethink on national park centre closure

Outdoor campaigners are rallying to save a national park learning centre threatened with closure. Losehill Hall in the Peak District could be shut ...

Challenge walkers needed to aid mountain rescue team

Walkers and runners can help a Pennine mountain rescue team – and have a day out on the fells of the Peak District.

Plea to walkers as missing kayaker search stood down

A sea search for a paddler missing off the Anglesey coast has been called off. But efforts to find 53-year-old Elizabeth Ashbee will continue on la...

Cuts put Big Society at risk in the great outdoors

The great outdoors is already a thriving example of the Government’s lauded ‘Big Society’, but cuts to professional staff put at risk the ability of volunteers to help maintain the countryside.

Kinder Mass Trespass centre will benefit from national park grant

A heritage centre to commemorate the 1932 Kinder Scout Mass Trespass will be set up in the village of Hayfield, starting point for the protest.

Call Out Mountain Rescue? – review

Two years ago, when the first edition of this pocket-sized book appeared, we said Call Out Mountain Rescue represented a good use of a tenner, for an informative and lightly written tome packed with good advice and lots of information.

Rescuers' renewed plea to walkers after man lost in dark

A second Lake District mountain rescue team has issued a plea to walkers to carry the right equipment as daylight hours get shorter and temperatures fall.

Bothy group takes on another hut as it looks to future

The organisation that cares for open shelters in Britain’s uplands has added a new bothy to its list.

Rescued walkers' thanks after mountain 'nightmare'

The parents of one of the two walkers rescued after spending the night on a Scottish mountain have thanked the teams who came to their aid and expressed regret for the expense and trouble the rescuers were put to.

Chemicals 'may have led to algae build-up' on Windermere

A conservation charity said the use of chemicals in washing detergents may be partly responsible for the growth of poisonous algae that led to the postponement of a major wild-swimming event.

Is latest big cat sighting the golf lynx?

Walkers are being warned to be on the lookout for large cat spotted in Easter Ross. Police say the panther-like creature was seen by a member of th...