The Fitbit dictates your outfit. If you can’t do 10,000 steps in it, does it really work?

Our new love of walking has subverted our fashion choices – flat shoes are de rigueur and the pencil skirt virtually extinct

Oh wow! How getting more awe can improve your life – and even make you a nicer person

Whether it’s the immensity of the Grand Canyon or the beauty of an intricate spider’s web, feeling awestruck is good for you. Here are 10 ways to get awed

Right of Way review – eccentric short film collection roams around rural England

Archive footage combines with work from modern film-makers in a rousing and sometimes puzzling series on rural England

Landlines by Raynor Winn review – back on the trail

The author of The Salt Path returns with another heartwarming odyssey, this time on one of the wildest walks in Britain

The ‘Old Crones’ tackle Northumberland’s 100-mile Saint Oswald’s Way

Three older women take on a gruelling 100-mile trek through the wilds of north-east England, getting lost in a forest, befriending farmers and helping fallen sheep along the way

Walking Pendle Hill’s new trail: the Two Toms

Honouring two giants of UK hiking, this 25-mile Lancashire route links to the Pennine Way – and finally frees the hill from its witchcraft associations

George Ezra: End to End review – singer-songwriter’s charming cross-Britain hike

After months of isolation and anxious about touring again, Ezra and two friends walk the length of the UK meeting musicians in an uplifting documentary

GPs to prescribe walking and cycling in bid to ease burden on NHS

Suggestion of activities to help improve mental and physical health part of wider movement of ‘social prescribing’

Alfred Wainwright’s coast-to-coast walk to be made National Trail

Spectacular country walk through Lake District and Yorkshire Dales will be made more accessible

Three-quarters of UK adults can’t read a map – here’s how to get better

A study by Ordnance Survey to coincide with National Map Reading Week paints a sorry picture of our navigation skills. But there are ways to improve …