Sir Chris Bonington
Bonington quits Friends' position as Honister zip-wire plans thrown out
Controversial plans to build a zip-wire on a Lake District mountainside have been thrown out again by national park planners.
Black Sail youth hostel will close for a month to allow £¼m facelift
One of England’s remotest youth hostels will get a £¼m facelift for its 80th birthday. The Black Sail hostel at the head of Ennerdale can only ...
Bonington's Olympic torch auctioned to raise cash for Nepal charity
The Olympic torch that Everest summiteer Sir Chris Bonington took to the top of Wales’s highest mountain is being auctioned to raise cash for a charity that helps Nepalese porters and their families.
Sir Chris will abseil from London's The Shard for Outward Bound
Everest summiteer Sir Chris Bonington will be scaling the heights of western Europe’s tallest building when he joins fellow charity fundraisers in abseiling from its pinnacle.
Joss leads Olympic torchbearers to new Lakeland high
Three Olympic relay representatives have taken their torches to a new high. Fellrunning legend Joss Naylor was one of three torchbearers to make th...
Sir Chris will join Morecambe Bay walkers to aid charity
An elder statesman of British mountaineering will join a walk across Morecambe Bay to help raise cash for a conservation charity.
Running legend Joss in mountain boundary run to mark diamond jubilee
A parish chairman will beat the bounds of his area to raise funds for two local causes. But this will be no stroll in the countryside, as the bound...
Gear on offer as Berghaus looks for citizen bloggers
What do the father of Existentialism, a deaf-blind socialist author and a 267-mile walk have in common.
Climber Cool chosen to carry Olympic flame
Nine-times Everest summiteer Kenton Cool has been chosen as a torch-bearer in the run up to next year’s London Olympic games.
Simon Yates and Alan Hinkes among star line-up at Keswick Mountain Festival
The man best known for cutting the rope holding his stricken climbing partner during an Andean expedition will be among speakers at this year’s Keswick Mountain Festival.
Bonington Olympic torch auction raises £13,500 for Community Action Nepal
A charity auction of the Olympic torch carried by Sir Chris Bonington to the summit of Snowdon has raised £13,500.
Sir Chris Bonington in Westminster call to get Britons outdoors
Everest summiteer Sir Chris Bonington is stepping into the corridors of power to urge people to get out and enjoy the great outdoors.
Mountain rescuers aid felltop Paralympic torch ceremony
Mountain rescuers and supporters helped light the Paralympic flame on top of England’s highest peak.
Sir Chris joins walkers in raising £2,000 with Morecambe Bay walk
Mountaineering elder statesman Sir Chris Bonington helped raise £2,000 for a Lake District charity in a walk across Morecambe Bay’s sands.
Bonington takes Olympic torch to Snowdon summit, by the easy route
He has made memorable ascents of some of the world’s most difficult mountain climbs, but today Sir Chris Bonington chose one of the easier routes up Wales’s highest peak with the Olympic torch.
Walkers offered chance to take to the hills with outdoors broadcaster
Visitors to a mountain festival will be able to take to the hills with one of the best known outdoor writers of the day.
Shedload of Bonington material goes on show thanks to lottery grant
Some of the most important items of British mountaineering history that had been kept in a shed are now safe after a two-year preservation project.
Scott and Greaves become mountain council patrons
Two elder statesmen of the mountaineering community have been appointed patrons of the body representing climbers, hillwalkers and mountaineers in England and Wales.
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