Being male and on your phone are biggest dangers on Scottish mountains, says expert

Data covering a seven-year period up to the start of 2019 shows that women accounted for only 10 of 114 fatalities

Walk this way: Australia’s urban tours find their feet by going niche

Once the pedestrian equivalent of a double-decker tourist bus, the new breed of walking tours can be genuinely revealing – even if you’re a local

Joy, liberation and good boots: a beginner’s guide to multi-day hiking in Australia

Setting off on your first big bushwalk can be intimidating but good planning (and the right gear) pays off

‘I felt I’d stepped into Narnia’: walking St Patrick’s Way in Northern Ireland

The pilgrim path celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Our writer takes in the uncrowded moors, mountains, canal and coast, on an adventure straight out of a storybook

Country diary: The hair-trigger pigeons are up again, more dance than flight

Brighton, East Sussex: How many times a day do they do this? How do they decide who goes first?

Chris Boardman to lead new walking and cycling body in England

Former Olympic cycling champion vows to take back streets from motor traffic as head of Active Travel England

On the right track: how walking connects me to the land and its people

From the Himalayas to Palestine and north London to south Devon, hiking gives a sense of belonging

Easy wins: shorten the commute, walk off the weight and lift the spirits

You could sign up for a gym membership – or you could just get off the bus a few stops earlier and walk

Spaces for pondering, meditating, praying and ‘being’: 10 of Britain’s best small pilgrimage sites

Remote churches, peace monuments and Celtic-style hillside etchings make for a meditative – and free – new year pilgrimage

Walking is a glorious, primal pastime – and far more radical than you think

Despite its reputation as a bourgeois hobby, walking has been a lifeline for millions past and present, says Guardian columnist John Harris