If you have gone looking for the OS Locate app and found nothing, you are not imagining it. Ordnance Survey […]
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You set off with 90%, and by lunchtime on a cold day it’s showing 20% and dropping faster than seems
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Mountain rescue teams in England and Wales were called out 3,968 times in 2025, and the two factors they recorded
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Mountain rescue teams publish, every year, a list of the things that were going on when they were called out.
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One o’clock in the afternoon. In the Lake District in 2025, 1pm was the busiest hour of the day for
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Most people’s plan for when a walk goes wrong is “I’ll just turn back”. It sounds sensible right up until
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Why do people need mountain rescue? Mostly for very ordinary reasons. In England and Wales in 2025 the commonest recorded
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Everyone’s busy this weekend, the forecast is good, and you’re sitting there wondering whether going on your own would be
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You’re coming down off the ridge, the light is going, and you do the maths on the last train for
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Most people know you dial 999 and ask for the police. Almost nobody knows what happens next, and that gap
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