Outdoor Travel
White Peak vs Dark Peak: Which Part of the Peak District Should You Visit
For most first visits to the Peak District, the White Peak is the easier area to build a trip around. It has more towns and villages, a wider choice of short and medium walks, traffic-free cycle trail...
Castleton, Peak District: What to Do, Walks and How Long to Stay
Castleton is one of the Peak District's classic "honeypots" where you can plan a whole weekend around the village because so much begins in, or starts from, the village itself. Cave Dale starts betwee...
A very strong El Niño is developing. Should it change your 2027 European holiday?
A very strong El Niño is developing in the tropical Pacific and is expected to remain influential into early 2027. It has already produced the sort of headlines that make a distant climate event sound...
Best Walking Holidays for Older Travelers Looking to Meet New People
Walking is a poor way to make friends, if you go by the usual advice about eye contact and open questions. You spend the day facing forwards, a metre apart, often too out of breath to say much. That i...
Project seeks students to research in Arctic conditions in Scandinavia
The Clean Planet Foundation, in partnership with the UK Polar Network, and polar educator & 12th Briton to ski to the geographic North pole and solo to the geographic South pole, Antony Jinman Ed.D, i...
White Peak vs Dark Peak: Which Part of the Peak District Should You Visit
For most first visits to the Peak District, the White Peak is the easier area to build a trip around. It has more towns and villages, a wider choice of short and medium walks, traffic-free cycle trail...
Walking in Japan: What to Expect on the Trail and How to Stay Connected
Japan is not the first country most British hill walkers think of, which is odd when you look at the terrain. The country is roughly three quarters mountain, it has a serious alpine range with peaks a...
Rab launch the next generation of their iconic Microlight collection
British outdoor brand Rab(owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd.) launch the next generation of the Microlight, expanding one of their most trusted insulation styles into a versatile family of produ...
Can the Peak District Grow Tourism Without Making Its Crowds Worse?
The Peak District wants tourism to grow at the same time as its National Park Authority is trying to reduce visitor pressure. At face value, that sounds like an impossible conflict to solve, particula...
Dame Laura Kenny heads star-studded line-up for 2027 Keswick Mountain Festival
One of Great Britain’s most successful sports stars of all time will top the bill at the 2027 Thule Keswick Mountain Festival. Five-time Olympic gold medal winner Dame Laura Kenny will appear in a sta...
