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Featured Route Card: Beinn Challum via the Northwest Spur

An easily accessed Munro, Beinn Challum may look uninspiring from the Crianlarich side, but this is deceptive. There’s some impressive terrain hidden away on...

COMPETITION: Win 1 of 2 Rab Microlight Summit Jackets

The Rab Microlight jacket has been tried, tested and loved for over a decade. Now, it's time to meet the next generation - here's your chance to win one too!

NEWS: Felltop Winter Conditions Report Season Begins

Daily conditions reports from Helvellyn commence for the winter season today. For the next 20 weeks the three Fell Top Assessors employed by the National Park...

15 Tips for Stronger Uphills

Trail running guru Claire Maxted offers tips on how to make ascents more efficient and less painful. And here's the thing: they mostly work for walkers too!

NEWS: Foel Penolau – Wales Gains a New Hewitt and Simm

A survey team have discovered that a hitherto-neglected summit in the wild northern Rhinogydd turns out to qualify as a separate mountain, according to the...

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Foel Penolau – Wales Gains a New Hewitt and Simm

5 Dec 2018

A survey team have discovered that a hitherto-neglected summit in the wild northern Rhinogydd actually turns out to qualify as a...

Felltop Winter Conditions Report Season Begins

1 Dec 2018

The Lake District Weatherline's daily conditions reports from Helvellyn commence for the winter season today. For 20 weeks - from...

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Climbing Clubs - What are they all about?

Nov 2011

There was once time when the only way that most people could go climbing was by joining a climbing club. In recent years clubs...

Digital Features

Marmot Photography Awards 2017

UKClimbing and UKHillwalking are proud to announce the winners of the 2017 Marmot Photography Awards. An automatic selection of five photos from each of the categories on site was made based on the votes from the previous 12 months. Users were then asked to vote for the overall winners of each category from this selection. In addition to the category awards, we also have three overall winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd), which were selected by professional photographer Tim Glasby.

Marmot Photography Awards 2016

An automatic selection of five photos from each of the catagories on site was made based on the votes from the previous 12 months. Users were then asked to vote for the overall winners of each catagory from this selection. In addition to the category awards we also have three overall winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd), which were selected by professional photographer Tim Glasby.

Helen Mort - No Map Could Show Them

No Map Could Show Them. The pioneering Victorian women in mountaineering of the early twentieth Century. The women whose narratives and achievements became lost in the mountains, where they forged paths and ascended; their stories brought back down to earth, only to be silenced by the patriarchy.

Starlight and Storm

In this full screen Digital Feature, Jack Geldard and Nick Brown explore the life and tragic death of Alison Hargreaves and how her achievements have influenced her son, Tom Ballard.

With stunning historical images and exclusive video, this feature captures the experiences of Alison and Tom in an absorbing and aesthetic style and delves in to the extraordinary lives of both mother and son.