Navigation and Walk

22/08/2021

Become a first aider!

3 simple steps......

09/04/2017

11/03/2017

27/02/2017

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".

27/02/2017

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

15/02/2017

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

10/02/2017

Quick walk in the snow

03/02/2017

Campers fell asleep about two hours earlier than usual when denied access to their gadgets and electrical lighting, study showed

02/02/2017

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.

25/01/2017

Great film showing the important volunteer work done by the Mountain Rescue.

25/01/2017

Something to look out for.

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 …

23/01/2017

This makes for interesting reading.

It was walking. Specifically, long distance walking.