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Walker dies after Lake District fall

A walker died yesterday after falling on a Lakeland fell. The 44-year-old man from Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria was with a friend in Great Langdale whe...

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..

Cancer man Tom completes his £50,000 walk

Coast-to-Coast walker Tom Buckley has completed his trip. The 23-year-old, who has terminal cancer, walked into the North Yorkshire village of Ro...

Thumbs-up as Queen signals move to open England’s coastline

The right to walk and climb along the whole length of England’s coast came a step closer today with the announcement in the Queen’s Speech that the Marine Bill will be introduced in this parliamentary session.

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.

Julia: drowning in the beauty and enjoying the leg burn

She’s become the pin-up of walkers across the country yet she’s been blamed for increasing the workload of mountain rescue teams across the Lake District.

Hundreds stranded as floods hit mountain marathon

Mountain rescue teams in the Lake District have been involved in a major exercise to rescue competitors in the Original Mountain Marathon event.

Seventy rescuers in action as floods trap cavers

Seventy volunteers spent the night on major rescue operations in the Yorkshire Dales as flood water trapped cavers underground.

Thousands saw Dales falcons' chicks

Thousands of visitors flocked to a Yorkshire Dales beauty spot to get a view of a famous family. For the second year running, the Malham Cove pereg...

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.

Two Dales events offer 100km challenge to walkers

Feeling lethargic after all that turkey and booze? How about a little stroll to get rid of the festive languor – say 100km? Yes, it’s time to s...

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.