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Mountain rescue team blames ill-equipped charity fundraisers for spate of farcical call-outs Mountain rescuers in the Lake District have blasted charity hikers' ill-equipped expeditions who go climbing armed only with GPS on their mobile phones and don't "respect the mountains".

Health Walks As you may have realised I love walking, and so have volunteered as a Walk Leader. ​

Infographic with loads of facts about the work teams do. See the full graphic here: https://goo.gl/P1W4S1

Quick walk in the snow

Having trouble sleeping? Grab a tent and go camping, suggest researchers Campers fell asleep about two hours earlier than usual when denied access to their gadgets and electrical lighting, study showed

Yesterday evening we were unfortunately subjected to a break in here at Alpkit HQ, taken were some women’s waterproof Gravitas and Definition jackets, men’s and women’s synthetic Katabatic and Heiko, down Filo's and Filoment jackets.

We have CCTV footage of the incident and the police responded quickly. Luckily our stuff is pretty easy to trace as you can only buy it from us. However, it would be great to find who took this stuff before it gets into innocent hands, as we may not be able to back it up with our Alpine Bond guarantees.

If you do come across anyone selling a number of our jackets, that you think is a bit suss then please get in touch.

Something to look out for.

Possibility for nacreous cloud sightings Although not related to the aurora, polar stratospheric clouds (also known as nacreous clouds) are a beautiful winter sky phenomenon. They only form when conditions in the stratosphere, a layer of …

This makes for interesting reading.

It's Not Hiking: The Patient Practice of Long Distance Walking It was walking. Specifically, long distance walking.