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Lottery cash helps buy new boats
Basingstoke Gazette - Basingstoke,England,UK
The club is run by a group of 20 volunteers, with fully-qualified BCU coaches in several of the canoeing disciplines. Courses and activities cater for a ...

Forget camping – try glamping
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
We used to be a nation of stoics, famed the world over for queueing, equanimity in the face of adversity, and our peculiar attachment to outdoor pursuits in ...

Naked rambler case is dropped
Dorset Echo - England,UK
The group hiked the Jurassic Coast path wearing just rucksacks and hiking boots. Their naked ramble sparked a major police operation - a helicopter tracked ...
Daredevil Tackles Mountain Race
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
"Mountaineering became a way of getting up the hill to go paragliding. You get a different perspective of mountains when paragliding....
Teen out to join elite of climbing
Northampton Chronicle & Echo - Northampton,England,UK
By Donna Bowater A mountaineering schoolgirl from Northampton has set off on the first target of the mountaineering grand slam – to climb the tallest ...
Cliff-edge tour to carry on in winter
NW Evening Mail - Barrow-in-Furness,England,UK
Honister has now drafted in members of outdoor pursuits company Keswick Mountain Adventures to offer special guided walks to the summit, with experienced ...
Climber forced to turn back just 1000 metres from summit
The Northern Echo - Darlington,UK
Association, two years ago. The civilian He was picked for the Mount Shishapangma team, which is sponsored by the Army Mountaineering, mountaineering ...
Review: Classic Rock ed Ken Wilson
Guardian Unlimited - UK
It takes us back to the golden age of British mountaineering in the first part of the last century, where intrepid adventurers opened up the great cliffs of ...
Veteran climber relives memories
BBC News - UK
It was Jimmy's experience of a bygone mountaineering age which inspired film-makers Joe French and John Sutherland to approach him with an unusual challenge ...
Mountain guide book led hiker to his death
Times Online - UK
Mountaineering experts called for the £3.95 book to be withdrawn from sale because, they said, it gave a “false representation” of a difficult climb. ...
Last chance: Young Explorers and scientists wanted for Arctic ...
Response Source (press release) - London,UK
BSES Expeditions are calling all budding scientists and explorers to apply for this incredible three month expedition in Spring 2008....
A method in Sir Ranulph 's madness
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,England,UK
"The trouble with getting sponsors is they want to know the expedition will be covered by the top media and the trouble with that is they are only ...
Back to the edge for a tale of courage and death
Times Online - UK
I feel a special empathy for him that inspired me earlier this year to take part in a film reconstruction of that ill-fated expedition. ...
Cool head helps pals
Dorset Echo - England,UK
By Robin Thompkins KEEPING a cool head in a crisis and canoeing skills learned on a school trip have earned a top award for Burton Scout Max Allen-Smith ...
Bye love! I'm off to the North Pole!
Absolute Gadget - London,UK
The expedition will also gather data on climate change. Participants will be put through an intensive weekend selection process to see if they have what it ...
Descendants to follow in Shackleton's footsteps
Guardian Unlimited - UK
They will begin, as the Nimrod adventurers did, by climbing Mount Erebus, the world's most southerly volcano. Then they plan to depart from the Shackleton ...
Third step' clue to Mallory's summit bid
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK
A mountaineering expert claims to have found evidence proving George Mallory (pictured) was the first man to conquer Everest. George Hoyland, from High Peak ...
Joe Simpson: High flyer
Independent - London,England,UK
The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) has its highest ever membership, currently standing at 60000 climbers, a number that has doubled in the past 10 ...
Work to start on rescue team HQ
BBC News - UK
Work is due to start at the beginning of November on a new £574000 headquarters for Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team. Funding for the new building included a ...
Scaling heights - climbing wall for all abilities
North Devon Gazette & Advertiser - Barnstaple,England,UK
THE Calvert Trust Exmoor is taking visitors to heights undreamed of with a new £65000 indoor climbing wall. The rock-effect wall at the centre near ...



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