Concern as Government plans to ditch adventure licensing body

The coalition Government plans to scrap the body set up to license children's adventurous activities.

Of mines and men: hill sleuths settle the score on county's top

On 15 October 1992, Roy Lynk, the controversial leader of the breakaway miners’ organisation the Union of Democratic Mineworkers began a sit-in 366m (1,200ft) below the rolling Nottinghamshire countryside.

Scottish watershed walks spark debate

Peter Wright has a favourite phrase: “Imagine you’re a raindrop.” Although it sounds like a pretentious instruction to a drama student, it’s actually the 63-year-old outdoor enthusiast’s way of defining his big project: the Scottish watershed walk.

Outdoors industry plans to get people off the sofa and into the country

The outdoor industry must encourage more people to get off their sofas and get into Britain’s countryside.

2010 in retrospect: join us in a look back at the outdoors year

The year began in a similar fashion to its end: warnings of potential avalanche conditions on Britain’s hills and a reminder that the harshest winter conditions for years commanded respect from those venturing to the high ground.

Pack your torch – experts' advice as clocks go back

Britain’s summer time officially ended at 2am on 31 October, and with it disappeared the extra hour’s daylight at the end of the afternoon.

Sheer lunacy: climbing’s next frontiers are out of this world

Ever since George Mallory’s 1924 justification for attempting Everest with the now immortal words “Because it’s there”, mountaineers have devised a plethora of reasons for aiming high in their climbing aspirations.

Anger and fury: the noise from the black stuff on Snowdon

Let me, dear reader, take you to a place you may never have visited before. It is a dark place where the whole world seems out to get you; where th...

Every rescuer's nightmare: Mayday! Helicopter down

As mountain rescue teams raise the public's awareness in a series of May Day events, Ogwen Valley Mountain Organisation member Matt Sutton recalls a difficult rescue of a badly injured winter climber that almost ended in disaster.