Today, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Outdoor Recreation and Access to Nature has launched a Call for Evidence to examine how to allow more people to access the outdoors.

The Hill Walking Group (HWG) brings together specialist volunteers who consider what the full offer for hill walking within the BMC should look like. This includes, increasing participation, improving ...

Three ideas for your first long-distance walk The South Downs Way. 99 miles; Winchester to the sea at Eastbourne; 7-9 days; Walk along the paths that the first settlers used 6,000 years ago to avoid ...

Do you want to lead walks on behalf of the BMC? As a BMC Walk Leader you can apply to lead walks on a voluntary basis. This is a great opportunity to expand your skills, meet like-minded people and ...

Belaying techniques. You can use a variety of belay techniques to protect scrambles: Direct belays: run the rope around a solid spike or block to create a fast belay.. Italian hitch belays: using a ...

The BMC produces a number of good practice Green Guides for climbers, hill walkers and mountaineers. These guides give a wide range of essential information on topics from how to minimise your impact ...

The Yr Wyddfa Big Clean Up is back again for 2025. Following on from the success of last year's big clean up, we're heading back to Yr Wyddfa with our litter pickers and bags.

BMC Atlantic Coast Access Rep Iain Peters has, in addition to securing access for climbers in Cornwall, been climbing his own mountain - writing The Corridor, a memoir of his life as a climber, a ...

What does it take to set a championship climbing event? We caught up with professional route setter Zoë to find out.

Wild camping - pitching your tent in a quiet place and leaving no trace - has long been a much-loved part of outdoor adventure. But across most of England and Wales, it remains off-limits, unclear, or ...

1. Start small. As with any new skill or experience in the mountains, don’t bite off more than you can chew at first. Find a modest hill or mild moor where the route-finding is straightforward; on ...

Following on from the success of last year's big clean up, we're heading back to Yr Wyddfa with our litter pickers and bags.. Last year we only scratched the surface of the work that needs to be ...