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Mountaineers urged to acquire Winter Skills

LFTO News Team, 12 December 2011 09:29

The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) is running a series of 4 Winter Skills courses and 3 Avalanche Awareness courses this winter. These one-day training courses provide a great opportunity to learn new skills, which should enable those new to Scotland’s winter mountains to be more self-reliant and make better judgements when out on the hills. The courses are organised ...

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Mountaineers urged to acquire Winter Skills

LFTO News Team, 12 December 2011 09:29

Have they really found a new mountain?

LFTO News Team, 19 September 2008 09:29

LFTO treats with some circumspection this story on the BBC about the three walkers who’ve reclassified a hill as a mountain.Fair play to the trio – John Barnard, Myrddyn Phillips and Graham Jackson – who ploughed some serious effort into an examination of two Snowdonian peaks in the belief that they might actually be 2,000-footers.Their efforts have proved that one ...

Eleven feared dead on K2

LFTO News Team, 04 August 2008 08:43

Eleven climbers have died in north Pakistan trying to scale the world's second-highest peak, K2, reports say. An eyewitness says 25 climbers reached the summit on Friday, but nine were stranded and froze to death after an avalanche swept away their fixed ropes. In the deadliest day in K2's history, another climber fell to his death and a porter died ...

The Ranulph Fiennes / Kenton Cool Everest expedition file

LFTO News Team, 28 May 2008 12:00

Ran got achingly close, but our man Kenton made it to the summit. In his latest exclusive blog entry, he reveals the full story of a difficult summit day. Wednesday 28 May I hope you know by now team Marie Curie summited Mount Everest at 6.30am Nepalese Time. It was a hard fought summit this time and the only bad ...

BMC membership a bargain at 50% off in May & June

Anonymous, 08 May 2008 13:33

You can join the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) for just for just £14.75 until the end of June - a bargain for what you get, and a positive thing to do for walkers' and mountaineers' most proactive representative body. Annual family membership cost is down from £50.50 to £25.25 too, bringing your whole clan benefits like these: Access to BMC-only ...

Olympic torch at Everest summit

LFTO News Team, 08 May 2008 11:14

The Olympic flame has reached the summit of Everest. Chinese and Tibetan climbers bearing special high-altitude torches reached the summit of the world's highest peak at around 1.20am our time. Chinese television showed the team of climbers, carrying special high-altitude torches, reaching the summit at 0920 local time (0120 GMT). Huddled in the snow, they unfurled flags and cheered for the cameras. ...

Everest sealed off to make way for Olympic flame

LFTO News Team, 22 April 2008 08:46

It should be the busiest time of year for Everest - but instead it's at the heart of political intrigue as the bleak farce of the Olympic Torch drags on. The mountain is closed from the Tibetan side, while climbers on the Nepal side claim they've been subjected to extensive gear searches - even having satphones and laptops confiscated. The Chinese ...

Busiest ever year for Lakes rescuers

LFTO News Team, 11 April 2008 08:46

Mountain Rescue Teams in the Lake District reported a record number of rescues in 2007, with 425 callouts between January and December. The number of fatalities actually dropped, from 28 in 2006 to 21 in 2007, but Mountain Rescue teams believe the drop was due to the poor weather last summer, which may have stopped many people heading out. John Dempster, of ...

Outdoors heroes tell their stories

Anonymous, 10 April 2008 12:36

Outdoors heroes with strong links to the Lake District are taking part in a new series of talks at Kendal's Brewery Arts Centre in the coming weeks. Mountaineers Doug Scott and Simon Yates, plus noted climbers-and-snappers the Birkett brothers, will be the stars of the show on Wednesdays from April 23rd, when the venue will become the Brewery Adventure Centre. ...

Knockout idea from Mountain Rescue

LFTO News Team, 09 April 2008 15:25

Remember the heady days of blokes dressed as hedgehogs trying to race each other across waterlogged hurdles? Stuart Hall chortling uncontrollably in the background? Well, Mountain Rescue could be about to bring them back. The 12 Mountain Rescue teams in the Lake District are looking for a unique way to celebrate 75 years of mountain rescue in England and Wales, ...

Meet a living legend of the mountains

Anonymous, 31 March 2008 10:03

Mountaineer Doug Scott has unveiled his programme of lectures for the rest of the year. Doug, who is widely acclaimed as one of the world's finest climbers, has created two talks for 2008 - Life & Hard Times and A Crawl Down The Ogre. As with all Doug’s lectures, all profits go to support the work of the Community Action Nepal, ...

Survival training - Special Forces style

LFTO News Team, 26 March 2008 08:48

Chances are you have something made by travel brand Lifesystems in your rucksack, and chances are it’s handy, nifty and geared for survival. Now the brand has teamed up with ex-Special Forces medical experts Prometheus to offer a course that will make you just as nifty in matters of survival as your gear.Surviving Adventure is a course run in Hereford which ...

Mountain Rescue takes on a Hummer

LFTO News Team, 28 February 2008 11:19

It's usually associated with the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Beckham - but now a Hummer is the latest must-have for Mountain Rescue. Mountain Rescue England and Wales has taken delivery of one of the whopping great 4x4s to help reach walkers and climbers in trouble. The giant off-roader has been specially modified to cope with the punishing demands of a mountain ...

Gaelic pronounciation podcasts launched by Scottish walking website

Anonymous, 25 February 2008 16:44

Arguments and confusion amongst walkers about how to pronounce Highland place-names could be a thing of the past following the launch of a new podcast service by Walkhighlands.co.uk The walkers' website has recorded a native gaelic speaker giving the correct pronunciation and the meaning of 400 place-names featured on its walks, and has now made them available to all online. ...

Nesting time: the crags to avoid

LFTO News Team, 22 February 2008 09:05

These freakishly early spring conditions mean our feathered friends have already started nesting, so the British Mountaineering Council has released its list of crags to avoid a little earlier than usual. Praising climbers of their track record of sensitivity to nesting birds, the council has published its list of cliffs, crags and tors which should be left free of hexes ...

Take the plunge at the adventure film festival!

LFTO News Team, 21 February 2008 08:45

Like the picture? We thought you might. It's promoting this year's Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, which runs in South Yorkshire's culture capital from February 29 to March 2. It's a celebration of outdoors skill in moving images, featuring a massive array of films, lectures and hands-on activities. It'll include films from the worlds of climbing, mountain biking, skiing, orienteering, BASE ...

Walker killed in Scafell plunge

LFTO News Team, 18 February 2008 08:14

A walker has died after plunging 30ft on Scafell in the Lake District. David Woodland, from Gloucestershire, lost his footing on loose scree on Broad Stand, a steep crag which has been the scene of previous accidents. The 48-year-old was in a party of five and had 30 years' experience of walking. He was found by rescue teams, but had ...

Stretcher pioneer carries off a big win

LFTO News Team, 11 February 2008 15:17

Hearty congrats from LFTO to Dr Hamish MacInnes, who has become the first-ever winner of the Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture. The award, given as part of the Fort William Mountain Festival, recognises outstanding contributions to the climbing community. Hamish got the nod as designer of the MacInnes stretcher, which is used in mountain rescues all over the ...

World's newest country bids to lure trekkers

LFTO News Team, 24 January 2008 12:01

It was made to look very pretty in the latest James Bond film - now Montenegro is marketing itself as a top destination for walkers and trekkers. The nation - which bills itself as the world's newest country, having only declared independence from its former Yugoslavian neighbours in 2006 - now has its first dedicated outdoor activities venue, the Montenegro ...

Farewell Ed: Hillary laid to rest

Tim Cuff and LFTO, 22 January 2008 15:49

New Zealand - and the world - has paid its final respects to Sir Edmund Hillary at an emotional state funeral in Auckland. Photographer and friend of LFTO Tim Cuff was there to capture the moment, and offers his view on the day a nation buried its greatest hero... "I was lucky enough to work for The Times 10 years ago as ...

In pictures: New Zealand honours Hillary

Tim Cuff and LFTO, 21 January 2008 13:44

Photographer and friend of LFTO Tim Cuff has sent us his pictures as hundreds of mourners line up to pay tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary. The body of the mountaineer - the first man to climb Everest - is lying in state in his native New Zealand, ahead of his funeral tomorrow. Hundreds of New Zealanders have filed past the ...

Mountain Rescuer's plan to tell the story of his team

LFTO News Team, 20 January 2008 10:00

The leader of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team, who received the MBE in the New Year Honours - has announced plans to write a book about the history of his team. 50-year-old Garry Rhodes has been team leader of Bolton MRT for 19 years – making him one of the longest serving Mountain Rescue Team leaders in England and Wales – and has ...

'A bloke rang us cos he was stuck in bracken and worried about snakes'

Nick Owen and LFTO, 18 January 2008 12:48

MOUNTAIN RESCUE: An LFTO News Special Nick Owen, team leader of Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team, gives us a unique insight into the life of a rescuer. How big is the problem of trivial callouts?We did 105 rescues last year and 50 of them were to people who hadn't been injured in any way. But you get blips in everything, so ...

Mountain Rescue: the facts

Dave Allan & LFTO, 18 January 2008 12:33

LFTO NEWS SPECIAL Dave Allan, Chairman of Mountain Rescue England and Wales, explains the problems facing his teams. Is this really a crisis? This is definitely not a crisis. It got a little hyped through certain sections of the media but what I actually said was that it was an issue of concern not a crisis in Mountain Rescue.In the ...

Mountain Rescue: is there a crisis?

LFTO News Team, 18 January 2008 11:53

Mountain Rescue chiefs have appealed for calm over claims their teams face a crisis in funding and recruitment. A series of stories running at the moment in the mainstream media have suggested that teams in hotspots such as the Lake Dsitrict and Snowdonia are facing real problems in recruiting new volunteers - especially given the increase in "trivial" callouts. But senior ...