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Fall victim lends his weight to mountain safety campaign

A man who nearly died in a fall on one of Snowdonia’s peaks has backed a campaign to improve safety on the mountains.

Youngest ever fellwalker follows in Wainwright's footsteps

They just get younger: an East Yorkshire boy has completed his round of the wainwrights, just a few weeks past his fifth birthday.

Stone gift puts Dales walkers on firm footing

A Yorkshire Dales quarry firm has put walkers on a firm footing on one of the area’s most visited fells.

Power lines go underground to enhance Dales landscape

A remote Yorkshire dale will have a more natural look with the removal of electric power lines. More than 5km (3 miles) of overhead cabling will be...

Cyclists take over Three Peaks for annual event

Three Yorkshire Dales fells, normally the domain of walkers and runners, will this weekend be a sea of colourful Lycra-clad cyclists as the annual Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross race hits the fells.

Train crew brings child from windswept Snowdon summit

A two-year-old child was brought down from the summit of Wales’s highest mountain by train, after his father carried him to the peak in appalling weather.

Friends together: walkers urged to put something back into Three Peaks

Standing proud in the south-western corner of the Yorkshire Dales national park are three fells that, for centuries, have been the centre of mankind’s curiosity.

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...

Calendar Girl will meet Three Peaks walkers

A Calendar Girl who persuaded her Women’s Institute friends to pose naked in front of the camera will be the first member of the newly formed Friends of the Three Peaks.

Medal reward for wandering dog's 32 mountain ascents

A dog with a yearning for the hilltops has been made an honorary member of a national park support group.

Dales added to Met Office mountain forecasts

The Met Office has added a seventh area to its mountain weather forecasts. Visitors to the fells in the Yorkshire Dales can now see forecasts for t...

It's snowing, so wise up to winter

It’s snowing! Or, at least, it has been. Reports from the Mountaineering Council of Scotland say the first snow of the season has been spotted on th...

The highs and lows of our country's top spots

Most hillwalkers will identify with the mixture of panic, irrationality and fear that has, at some time, gripped all of us in the midst of a bad expedition up a mountain that just seems to have it in for you..

Mountain accident blackspots: what's to be done?

Are there places we should avoid in the mountains?...

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.

Duo's 'Everest' challenge underway - on British hills

Two charity challengers are midway through their ‘staycation’ version of climbing Everest. Darren Edwards and Bryn Posey are aiming to climb mo...

UFO followers will trek to British peaks

Followers of a society which believes its founder was visited by alien beings will next week make the journey to the top of three of his ‘holy mountains’ in Britain.

Second walker drops in on rescuers at Lakes blackspot

A walker who fell at a Lake District accident blackspot found himself dropping in on rescuers who were already tending to a man who had fallen at the same place minutes earlier.