Hiking Safety & Mountain Emergency Protocols

Blister Tape: Which One Actually Works on a Hill Walk

Stand in a chemist or an outdoor shop and there are half a dozen tapes that all claim to help […]

The clocks went back at 2am this morning, and sunset has jumped an hour earlier on the clock. In Keswick,

If you’re planning to walk anywhere there’ll be snow and ice on steep ground, yes, you need a winter skills

The first signs of hypothermia on a hill walk are rarely dramatic. Someone goes quiet, starts lagging behind, gets snappy

If you have gone looking for the OS Locate app and found nothing, you are not imagining it. Ordnance Survey

You set off with 90%, and by lunchtime on a cold day it’s showing 20% and dropping faster than seems

Mountain rescue teams in England and Wales were called out 3,968 times in 2025, and the two factors they recorded

Mountain rescue teams publish, every year, a list of the things that were going on when they were called out.

One o’clock in the afternoon. In the Lake District in 2025, 1pm was the busiest hour of the day for

Most people’s plan for when a walk goes wrong is “I’ll just turn back”. It sounds sensible right up until