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Julia to star in second BBC Wainwright series
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Tragedy hits Highland love nest
Scotland’s favourite avian soap opera took a dark turn with the news of a death in the Highland love nest.Bird-brained Henry, the osprey involved in three-in-a-nest shenanigans at Loch Garten, has trampled on one of his own offspring, killing the chick.Henry has previously kicked his love rival’s eggs out of the nest, dashing them on the ground.
Lowe Alpine Marathon moves south
The annual Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon was run last weekend in the southern Highlands.Dubbed ‘the connoisseurs’ mountain marathon’, the event takes place in a different place each year.
BMC open day in Peak District this Saturday
Climbers and walkers can join in a free open day this Saturday.The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) is holding an open day at the Roaches, on the Staffordshire side of the Peak District, where the public can see what the council is all about.There will be led climbs of what the BMC calls the hidden gems of the gritstone crags, as well as two guided walks which will centre on the landscape and wildlife of the area.
Avon climbers risk disturbing peregrines
Climbers have been reported in a restricted area of the Avon Gorge – and were filmed by the BBC in action!The team was on a route of the main wall near a nesting site of peregrine falcons, in contravention of a voluntary ban.
Final batch of Fellsman pictures now online
Our last set of photos from the Fellsman Hike is now online. There are now 135 pictures to view.See if you've been captured! See our full alb...
Latest batch of Fellsman Hike pics now online
We've added the latest batch of pictures of participants in the recent Fellsman Hike.Check our portfolio of photographs from the 2007 event.There are still lots of photographs to upload.
Bear over Everest bags new record
News reaches grough towers of another Everest conquest.The implausibly named TV presenter Bear Grylls flew a powered paraglider above the peak of the highest point on earth to claim the record for – er – flying a powered paraglider above the highest point on earth.Bear, 32, from Ramsbury in Wiltshire, travelled 140m above the summit after taking off from a village in Khumbhu, The adventurer, a former special forces member whose real name is Edward Michael Grylls, is the son of a Tory politician and was the youngest Briton to climb Ama Dablam and then Everest – and return alive, so he has at least gone up the mountain the hard way.
Naked ramblers plan Dorset walk
Ramblers will be tackling an exposed route next month along the Dorset coast.More than 20 walkers will be shedding their clothes to make the 20-mile journey between Swanage and Lulworth – weather permitting.Leader of the nude walkers is 62-year-old Chris Lamb, who accompanied celebrated naked rambler Stephen Gough during part of his mammoth Land’s End to John O’Groats trek last year.
Squirrels, chainsaws and Elgar: are you bats?
Here’s a little quiz. What links the following: Elgar, squirrels, slow motion, bats, chainsaws, eccentrics and erratics?Sounds like a Ken Russel...
Summit success for Everest documentary team
The team filming a recreation of Mallory and Irvine’s ill-fated 1920s Everest expedition has summited the mountain.Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding removed a ladder fixed to the Second Step, a 30m rock face just below the summit and free climbed it, using just hand and foot holds.
Anger as Gloag wins access ban case
Scottish politicians say judges should be issued with new guidance after millionaire bus magnate Ann Gloag won her case to ban the public from her land.Campaigners say the ruling, by Sheriff Michael Fletcher, blows a massive hole in Scotland’s right-to-roam legislation and could lead to landowners across the country closing their estates.MSP Rosanna Cunningham, whose Perth constituency covers Mrs Gloag’s Kinfauns Castle estate from which walkers, runners and cyclists are now excluded, will raise the matter tomorrow during First Minister’s Questions in the Holyrood parliament.
Foinaven falls short of magic number
All those baggers on tenterhooks can hang up their boots for a little while.It was announced this morning that Foinaven is not a Munro.
Retired teacher claims Everest record
A Japanese man has claimed the title of the oldest Everest conqueror.71-year-old Katsusuke Yanagisawa spent half-an-hour on the summit and said he could have sung a song.
Everest docs set bloody altitude record
It’s been a week for strange Everest records. On Monday came the news that Climber Rod Baber had become the first man to make a mobile phone cal...
Access-battle family 'could be kidnapped'
A millionaire businessman who wants to keep the public off his Scottish estate is at risk of kidnap because local police are underperforming, according to a former police chief.Joe Holden, who was head of operations of Central Police, told Stirling Sheriff Court that Euan Snowie and his family could be snatched because criminals would know the Dunblane police area had lower-than-average detection rates.
Accidental death verdict on Cairn Gorm climber
An experienced mountaineer died after making a last-minute decision to go ahead with a climb on Cairn Gorm.A coroner’s court heard that Lt Col Michael Rough fell 200m from the top of the Aladdin’s Mirror route in Coire an t-Sneachda.
Answering machine takes high-level call
Typical! You climb 8,848m up a mountain to get a decent signal and all you get is the answering machine.Climber Rod Baber became the first man to make...
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