Lakes 'checkpoint' will advise walkers heading for hills

Walkers heading for the Lakeland fells next weekend will face a checkpoint to ensure they have the correct gear.

New mapping system will help colour-blind

Britain’s national mapping agency has introduced a new product to help people who are colour-blind read maps more easily.

Watch out filchers, Rodney's about!

A Somerset man has been appointed the eyes and ears of a campaign group in neighbouring Dorset. Former chairman Rodney Legg was named as the repres...

Welsh peak will bear name of 'lost princess'

A Welsh peak will join a family circle this weekend, following a concerted campaign to have it renamed.

Two out of three ain’t bad, as some fat bloke once sang

So there was to be no 285th munro – but which of the existing 284 would be chopped down to corbett status?.

Murmuring, muttering and mood music – a change to the munros is almost upon us

How people will feel if their completion munro suddenly gets kicked off the list?...

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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...