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Online revamp for conservation group
There’s a new look for the website of one of the country’s oldest conservation groups. The Open Spaces Society has revamped its clunky online p...
Experts: winter mountain paths 'only for the experienced'
Don’t become a mountain statistic this weekend. That’s the message from experts who warn that Snowdon and the mountains of north Wales and the Lak...
Snowdon fatality was 27-year-old man
Police say the man whose body was found on Snowdon yesterday was a 27-year-old from the Shrewsbury area.
Wainwright statue to adorn his adopted town
A statue of Cumbria’s most famous recent chronicler of the area’s fells is due to grace the town that was his home for many years.
Friends' cash improves Cumbrian paths
Less mobile visitors to the Lake District will benefit from better paths, thanks to a £10,000 grant from a conservation group.
Charity meeting seeks solution to Nevis challenge problems
The problems caused by so many booted feet tramping up Britain’s highest mountain will come to a head later this month with a summit meeting between charity representatives and Ben Nevis’s authorities.
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.
The white stuff: how winter hillwalkers can stay safe
As much of Britain is cloaked in the white stuff, and walkers’ and mountain lovers’ hopes of a decent winter rise, it’s important to revise our approach to tackling the hills as snow and ice cover our usual routes and temperatures drop below freezing.
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.
Walkers back on track after seven-year footpath fight
Walkers will be able to use a former railway line after victory in a seven-year fight. The route, in the Buckinghamshire village of Bourne End, wil...
Snowdon death-fall walker named
The man who died on Snowdon on Saturday was today named as Gwyn Norrell, of Snailbeach, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Two injured in separate Lakes falls
Two walkers were injured in separate falls in the Lake District today, Saturday. A 28-year-old man from Lancashire suffered a leg injury when he fe...
Council 'shoots itself in foot' with proposed path cutbacks
Planned cutbacks to the footpath service of one of England’s most popular holiday destinations could land the authority with extra bills, a pressure group says.
Campaigners fight a bridge too far on national trail
Footpath campaigners are fighting plans which would mean walkers on a national trail had to wait while a university rowing club launched its boats.
2008: take a trip with us through the highs and lows of the year
In the slovenly hiatus between Santa’s return north and the alcoholic debauchery of the New Year, journalists traditionally have a problem: how to fill the space on their various publications when, well, not much happens..
Incredible courage of Coast to Coast walker Tom
Heroes come in many guises. Some people achieve glory by conquering mountains; others demonstrate incredible bravery in the face of peril. Ordinary...
Two footpath victories, but common defeat for campaigners
The Open Spaces Society, guardians of rights of way and green areas, has scored victories in Somerset and Tyneside.
All I want for Christmas is a new footpath...
Loath as we are to mention the C-word so early – we hate the ads for hideous sofas and jingle-bells jollity just as much as anyone in the midst of dark, miserable November – we have come across a festive gift for the fellwalker who has everything.
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