Rescuers were called out in the early hours of Thursday when a group of wild campers got into difficulties on a Lake District fell. Police alerted Keswick Mountain Rescue Team to the incident about ...

Alfred Wainwright published A Coast to Coast Walk in 1973, suggesting a route from St Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hood’s Bay in ...

A rescue team in the Lake District has offered guidance for would-be wild campers after several callouts to individuals who have got into difficulties on the fells. The latest incident for Patterdale ...

I’ve had these Danner boots on a long-term test for almost a year and they’ve seen action in a variety of terrains, ranging from boggy moorland to Yorkshire Dales fells to Lake District mountains. The ...

Work has begun on construction of the first additional ‘seasonal’ search and rescue helicopter base at Oban. A second one will be built at Carlisle. The two extra Coastguard bases will operate from ...

Rescuers battled torrential rain and winds reaching 80mph to reach an injured walker on a Lake District fell. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out about 1.40pm on Friday as Storm Amy swept ...

The umbrella body for mountain rescuers south of the border has elected its first chief executive from outside the teams that make up its membership. Businessman and manager Andy Buchan will take over ...

A man was airlifted from a Lake District fell after he collapsed and lost consciousness. Keswick Mountain Rescue Team was alerted shortly after 1.50pm on Saturday to the incident. A father and his ...

Rescuers searching for a walker reported missing in Glen Shiel have found his body. Kintail Mountain Rescue Team said Richard Dawson’s body was found high on the slopes of the Five Sisters of Kintail ...

Two Cumbrian men have each been jailed for four years three months for felling the Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were found guilty ...

A man has died after falling from Sharp Edge on Blencathra in the northern Lake District. Keswick Mountain Rescue Team was alerted to the incident about 1.40pm on Saturday. A team spokesperson said: ...

Supreme Court judges have unanimously backed Dartmoor National Park Authority in its case to allow backpacking camping on commons in the area. The judges dismissed an appeal by Alexander and Diana ...