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Scores watch new dawn as Lake District and Yorkshire Dales extended
Scores of people saw dawn break over a national park landscape to mark the first day of the extended Lake District.
Lakeland charity invites outdoor fans to dawn event to mark enlarged national park
A campaigning charity is inviting outdoor enthusiasts to join it to celebrate a new dawn for a national park.
Kinder rescuers mourn after chairman Ken Blakeman dies during callout
Mountain rescuers are mourning one of their team members after he collapsed and died while on a callout.
Time is running out to pledge cash to Mend Our Mountains crowdfunder
Time is running out for outdoor fans to pledge their cash to help a crowdfunding effort to repair some of England and Wales’s most popular mountain paths.
Woman dies after falling from Tryfan scrambling route
A woman has died after falling from a scrambling route on a Snowdonia mountain. The walker, in her early 50s and from the Stockport area, was comin...
Outdoor fans urged to help BMC's Mend Our Mountains crowdfunding path scheme
Outdoor enthusiasts are being invited to help crowdfund repairs to some of England and Wales’s most used upland paths.
Actor Brian Blessed backs Peak District fundraising Walk in the Park event
A larger-than-life television personality and adventurer has thrown his weight behind a scheme to help care for trails in a national park.
Frantic Christmas for Edale team as two brought from hills and flood victims rescued
A Peak District rescuer has described his team’s work helping ensure the safety of flood victims across the North of England, and rescuing an injured walker and a man lost on the national park’s highest hill.
Call 999 if you need us, says Edale team, after lost Kinder walkers phone base
A Peak District mountain rescue team urged outdoor enthusiasts to ring 999 if they needed help, after a group of lost walkers phoned the team’s base from the hill.
Two rescue teams called out as three injured teens airlifted from Kinder Scout
Three young walkers were airlifted from the Peak District’s highest hill after getting into difficulties.
Search dog helps rescuers find lost Kinder Scout walkers in four-hour operation
A pair of walkers were rescued from the Peak District’s highest hill after getting lost. The couple called for help after becoming disoriented on...
Keswick festival organisers welcome early reopening of main Lakes road
Organisers of a major outdoor festival taking place in the Lake District this month have welcomed the early reopening of the national park’s main north-south road.
Kinder Trespassers 'would today be kettled and labelled extremists'
If the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass took place in 2016, its participants would likely have been kettled before getting out of the car park and labelled extremists, an outdoors expert said.
Spirit of Kinder gathering will mark Mass Trespass anniversary
The British Mountaineering Council’s hillwalking advocate will be among those gathering to mark the anniversary of a historic event in the battle for access to England’s uplands.
Lost Kinder Scout walkers rescued by Buxton team members on training exercise
Two walkers were brought to safety after going missing on the Peak District’s highest hill. Derbyshire Police alerted Edale Mountain Rescue Team ...
Peak District rangers offer to help visitors walk off festive excess
National park rangers are encouraging people to walk off their festive excess with a series of events in the outdoors.
The outdoors year in view: our look back through 2015's triumphs, tragedies and curiosities
The year provided plenty of outdoor adventures, not least provided by Mother Nature herself, as exceptional weather became the norm.
Derby rescuers pay tribute to former leader Steve Hilditch who has died
A mountain rescue team has paid tribute to a former team leader who died on Friday. Derby Mountain Rescue Team member Steve Hilditch lost a long fi...