Outdoor News

The man who has taken over the National Trust’s operations in Cumbria says rebuilding the memorial cairn on top of England’s highest mountain is among the charity’s key tasks this year.

Jeremy Barlow has been appointed assistant director of the trust, Europe’s largest conservation charity

A Lake District rescue team was called out four times in three days to aid three walkers and a mountain biker in separate incidents.

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team’s first call was on Saturday afternoon when a woman injured her ankle on the Ullswater shore path

A climber was rescued after he got stuck on a Lake District crag when his ropes jammed while abseiling.

The man had returned to Shepherd’s Crag in Borrowdale on Monday morning to retrieve gear left on the rock when it started raining during a climb on Sunday

Feedback from an international women's team skiing to the North Pole will be used in future design

An appeal set up to raise cash for vital operations for a search dog reached its target in just five days, thanks to the generosity of the public.

Dolly’s owner and handler Nick Shepherd faced a vet’s bill of £8,000 for two procedures to help the dog back to full health, only £3,000 of which would be met by the Kinder Mountain Rescue Team member’s insurance as a member of the Search and Rescue Dogs Association

Bad weather prevented two helicopters from airlifting an injured walker from a Lake District fell.

The 55-year-old woman fell about 20-30ft from the path alongside Scale Beck on Friday

A charity is urging members of the public to join it in an effort to clean up the countryside.

Friends of the Lake District will stage its Great Cumbria Litter Pick in July, in an attempt to tidy up its ‘glorious county’

Aficionados of the late author Alfred Wainwright have raised thousands of pounds to help improve a footpath on a Lake District mountain.

Sales of the Wainwright Society’s annual calendar produced £9,100 and donations from members’ annual challenge boosted the total to £10,600

A man’s body has been found on a Lake District fell.

Police received a phone call on Tuesday morning after the discovery on Latrigg, overlooking Keswick

Ramblers have donated £10,000 towards the improvement of a footpath leading to a Peak District hill with connections to a pioneering access campaigner.

The cash, part of a legacy to the walking group, will be used to repair the path on the Great Ridge, which culminates at Ward’s Piece, named after GHB Ward, founder of the Clarion Ramblers