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Cancer man Daryl will recreate Tom's Coast to Coast effort

A cancer patient will follow in the steps of one of his inspirational friends who completed the Coast to Coast walk while in the terminal stages of the disease.

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.

Wainwright calendar will help Fix the Fells

The Wainwright Society, aficionados of the chronicler of the Cumbrian fells, is to produce its first ever pictorial calendar.

Walkers invited to Coast to Coast celebration

Walkers are being invited to follow in the footsteps of Lakeland’s most venerated chronicler of the fells – in the Yorkshire Dales.

Artist adds colour to Wainwright views

A Teesdale artist has brought colour to some of the Lake District’s most renowned pen-and-ink sketches with a reworking of the drawings of Alfred Wainwright.

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...

Wainwright date for Yorkshire literature gathering

The exploits of Lancashire’s best known fellwalker will be played out in the shadow of Yorkshire’s Ilkley Moor in the autumn.

England's second-oldest national trail celebrates 40 years

Forty years ago, the great and the good gathered in the ruins of a north Yorkshire castle to celebrate the culmination of a successful campaign going back decades..

Julia cleared in airline fraud inquiry

Fellwalking pin-up Julia Bradbury is to resume her role on the Watchdog programme after she was cleared of involvement in a frequent-flyer account fraud.

Artist's quest reveals state of Lakes paths

An artist’s quest to recreate the sketches of the Lake District’s celebrated chronicler Alfred Wainwright has uncovered the extent of footpath erosion in the area.

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..

More walkers hit England's second-oldest national trail

England’s second oldest national trail is getting more popular, with figures released today showing an increase of 26 per cent stomping across its route.

Naomi will keep an eye on national park

Walkers in the North York Moors have a new ranger to look after their landscape. Naomi Dillon has been appointed senior ranger for the northern are...

Wainwright voice guides walkers to fell tops

Aficionados of the late Alfred Wainwright, cantankerous chronicler of the Lake District’s mountains, can now walk up Catbells with the voice of the author ringing in their ears.

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.