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Dame Kelly enjoys Christmas Curry on Welsh crag

Double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes’s career in rockclimbing took a few steps upwards with a new personal best.

29 July 2009

Flood-damaged national trail section remains closed

A stretch of England’s longest national trail remains closed, almost a week after storms caused damage along the route.

03 May 2009

Fogle helps launch ethnic minority national park scheme

Antarctic adventurer Ben Fogle will today help launch a scheme to open up England’s national parks to ethnic minorities.

28 July 2009

Runners will take to the fells for 100-miler

More than 200 super-fit athletes will tackle one of the country’s toughest mountain races this weekend.

27 July 2009

Climber stable after being crushed by falling boulders

A climber is stable in hospital after a five-hour operation to free him from boulders that fell and crushed him yesterday.

26 July 2009

Missing Lakes horserider sparks mountain search

A woman on horseback turned up safe as a Lake District mountain rescue team prepared to hoof it on to the fells to begin a search for her.

23 July 2009

Three airlifted from Snowdon in separate incidents

Aircrews and rescuers were kept busy yesterday in thee separate incidents on Wales’s highest mountain.

23 July 2009

Anne takes over national park campaign group

A pressure group for national parks in England and Wales has a new head, Anne Robinson has been elected as chair of the Campaign for National Parks after Kate Ashbrook stood down from the post she held since 2003.

22 July 2009

Keep walkers on the verge, says society

Britain is on the verge of losing some of its most important walkers’ resources, according to a campaign group.

22 July 2009

Huw will launch new walkers’ guide to Dartmoor military areas

Minister Huw Irranca-Davies is a busy man. Today he was in Yorkshire launching the Mosaic scheme; tomorrow he hotfoots it to Dartmoor to put walkers i...

29 July 2009

Outdoor-course student rescued after fall

Two mountain rescuers were winched on to a fell to help an injured student yesterday. The 16-year-old slipped and broke a rib while with a party at...

29 July 2009

Scotland's mountains: 'tell walkers where to go'

Scotland stands accused of ‘mountain nihilism’ in its continuing opposition to adopting the practice of waymarking footpaths on its high ground.

28 July 2009

Major search finds walkers on wrong mountain

Two walkers were found safe and well today after a massive search involving more than 50 rescuers. The two reported they were lost on Scafell Pike ...

27 July 2009

Woman injured after Lakeland scramble

A woman was taken to hospital earlier today after a fall on a Lakeland peak. Members of Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team were called to help the 31-...

25 July 2009

Rescuers find walker safe after night on Scots mountain

A walker has been found safe after spending the night on a Scottish mountain. The 22-year-old was reported overdue late last night in the Slioch ar...

23 July 2009