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29th July 2019
Social media is swamped with daredevil ‘influencers’ performing risky stunts. But when scrambling and climbing guides use these tactics to market themselves, the results can be controversial – even dangerous. Hanna Lindon looks at a…
25th July 2019
The proposed extension area shares much of the geology, geomorphology, cultural history and wildlife of the adjacent Lake District. Following a request from a group of parish councils, landscape charity Friends of the Lake District…
22nd July 2019
Yorkshire Day will be celebrated on Thursday, 1 August at Aysgarth Falls National Park. Bunting will also be up at the three other National Park Centres – in Malham, Hawes and Grassington – as well…
16th July 2019
Legendary mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington CBE calls on public to help save YHA Snowdon Bryn Gwynant. The future of YHA Snowdon Bryn Gwynant in Snowdonia National Park is at risk unless a total of £2…
9th July 2019
John Muir Trust ‘hands back’ community mountain to Assynt Foundation at ceremony in Glencanisp Lodge after final phase of work completed It all began back in 2015 when the outdoor clothing retailer Berghaus nominated the…
9th July 2019
Police Scotland have launched ‘Bothy Watch’ – an initiative to raise awareness of the issues surrounding remote bothies across the south of Scotland. Eleven bothies maintained by the Mountain Bothies Association are spread across the…
4th July 2019
Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Authority has launched a new pilot scheme to encourage campers to toilet responsibly in the outdoors.
1st July 2019
The Hebridean Whale Trail, the first of its kind in the UK, is a unique initiative connecting more than 30 places offering opportunities for land-based sightings of whales, dolphins and porpoises. A new trail –…
27th June 2019
Music lovers attending this year’s Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival – the Highland’s longest-running and biggest music festival – are being encouraged to help rewild the Scottish Highlands by having their own trees planted by conservation charity…
27th June 2019
Ultra-runner Paul Tierney has set an incredible new fastest-known time for summiting all 214 of Alfred Wainwright’s Lake District peaks in one go.
21st June 2019
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of Mountain Safety Research. Get involved in their celebrations and you could win a prize this September.
