A freak heatwave left the summit of one of Britain’s highest mountains hotter than Majorca. Mark Handford, 54, set off to climb Y Garn in Snowdonia when temperatures in the valley were an icy 2C. But ...

Leaning against the trig pillar on the crest of the mountain, it was bizarre to think the salty water of the Irish Sea had been lapping at my boots less than two hours ago. Yet here I was, on the ...

If ever there was an example of the importance of keeping an open mind when it comes to walking in the mountains, the Nantlle Ridge is it. Lacking a single star name, not one of its summits poking ...

A walker wearing SHORTS was part of a group rescued from near the summit of a Snowdonia peak in "atrocious weather". Rescuers spent five hours searching for the three shivering walkers who had became ...