As Britain escapes lockdown, home-grown adventure is set to explode this summer. But what special skills do you need to know if you’re heading up into the wilds of our hills and mountains? To help everyone Respect The Wild, we've launched a new series of advice codes and films that reveal the secrets for sustainable and successful wilderness trips. Read more »
Path repairers have already got stuck in to the work of repairing one of Scotland's most popular Munros after Mend Our Mountains succeeded in raising £100,000 for two projects north of the border. Read more »
One of the foremost Russian mountaineers of his generation, Alexander Ruchkin, has died while trying to climb the south face of Huandoy in Peru. Read more »
Despite the wet weather, Weaver Vale MP Graham Evans and Macclesfield MP David Rutley today went abseiling and climbing with BMC president Rehan Siddiqui and BMC training officer Jon Garside to chat about the virtues of climbing and outdoor recreation. Read more »
Cambridge University research student Evan Miles, with Ibai Rico from Spain, has recently climbed a previously virgin line on an unnamed peak in the Langtang Himal of Nepal, the pair stopped from reaching the summit by 80-100m of loose rock. Read more »
Four mountaineers from Holland have become the first to climb in the Oibala Range of the Pamir Alai, making six first ascents up to TD+ standard Read more »
The talented alpine rock climber, Giovanni Quirici, was recently killed in a fall on the North Face of the Eiger. Read more »
A crack team of Swiss climbers has made a free ascent of a major big wall route on one of the most famous granite faces in the former Soviet Union, the North West Face of Asan in the Karavshin. Their climb produced one of the hardest all free routes in the valley. Read more »
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