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Pen-y-ghent from Foxup

For anyone fancying a longer walk up Pen-y-ghent, this 10-mile stroll from the end of Littondale provides a different approach to one of Yorkshire's Three Peaks.

Real Three Peaks Challenge seeks baggers for mountain litter pick

Three outdoor instructors will lead a Three Peaks Challenge with a difference: to clean up Britain’s national highest mountains.

Border rescue team seeks walkers and runners for fundraising challenge

Mountain rescuers are challenging walkers and runners to take to the hills to help them raise much needed cash.

Prince William quits rescue helicopter service to take up royal duties

Prince William has left his job as a search and rescue helicopter pilot, and will now concentrate on royal duties.

New chief steps Forward to lead walking co-op firm HF Holidays

A former boss of a hotel chain will be stepping into the boots of a specialist walking holiday co-operative chief executive.

Rescue team seeks challenge walkers to help raise cash to buy HQ

A mountain rescue team is looking for determined walkers to step out to help it raise cash to buy its new base.

Instructor praised for helping Corn Du walker with broken ankle

An outdoor instructor was praised by rescuers after he helped an injured walker and raised the alarm when he came across the man on south Wales’s second-highest mountain.

Gordon Moss named as mountain biker who died in fall at Laddow Rocks

The mountain biker who died in a fall at Laddow Rocks has been named. Gordon Moss, 54, of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, was with five companions on Bl...

Mountain rescue insurance move will enable teams to cover fell races again

The umbrella body for mountain rescue in Scotland has moved to ensure team members have accident insurance when fundraising and providing safety cover for events such as fell races.

Robert Pascoe named as walker who fell to his death from Striding Edge

Police have named the man who fell to his death from Helvellyn on Friday. Robert Pascoe, 24, from Liverpool, was walking with a companion when he f...

Rescues for injured Yorkshire Three Peaks cyclo-cross riders and walker

Mountain rescuers were kept busy on the Yorkshire Three Peaks at the weekend treating injured cyclists and a walker.

Ban looms for motors on Long Causeway green lane at Stanage

Motor vehicles will be banned permanently from a green lane next to the popular Stanage Edge climbing crags.

Briton dies after falling 3,000ft on Mont Blanc

A British mountaineer has died after falling more than 3,000ft in the Alps. The off-duty soldier was with another man on Mont Blanc this morning wh...

Plea to take map and compass after walkers get lost on Cross Fell

Rescuers pleaded with walkers to take a map and compass when heading for the skills, along with the skills to use them.

Lancashire mill stones put Yorkshire Dales route on firmer footing

Walkers on a Yorkshire Dales hill will find themselves on firmer ground thanks to an import from a Lancashire mill.

50-year-old Stuart Mills wins gruelling Montane Lakeland 100 race

One of the toughest ultrarunning races in the country was won by a 50-year-old, and the fastest woman knocked more than four hours off last year’s winning time.

Mountaineer Alan Hinkes: K2 'nearly as impressive as Roseberry Topping'

With a major new book chronicling his record-breaking ascents of the world's highest mountain out soon, the Yorkshire climber gives us his thoughts on a life spent 'playing out'.

Two lost walkers found sheltering after Cross Fell search

A rescue team pleaded with walkers to carry a map and compass after they were called out to find two lost walkers on the highest hill in the Pennines.

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