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The inside story of Elsey Davis’s record-setting circumnavigation of her native Cornwall – and the cruel diagnosis that drove her to take on the challenge

THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAIN GUIDE CHAMPIONED ‘SKIMO’ TO BECOME AN OFFICIAL SPORT IN THE UK. NOW, IT’S DEBUTING AT THE OLYMPICS

I actually feel like I’m not much of a risk-taker,” says Louise Ferguson. These are unexpected words coming from the first woman to complete a top-to-bottom race run through the treacherous rocks, off

For the last five years, Anna Troup has been winning some of the toughest trail races you can find in the UK. Troup only took up ultrarunning in her 40s, but her background as one of the winning team

There have been several attempts at a winter round of the Wainwrights, usually continuous efforts by ultra-runners. But could two fellwalking friends reach all 214 summits in what turned out to be the wintriest season in Lakeland for years? David Johnson and Nicky Oliver decided to find out…

In his paean to the sport, Feet in the Clouds, Richard Askwith explains pithily: “You run up the fell; you run down again.” Simple it may be; easy it is not. Unlike trail running, which generally stic