How to use walking poles
Outdoor writer and photographer Chris Townsend presents this series of hill walking how-to films. In this episode Chris shows you how to use walking poles.
- Paraclimbing World Cup, Innsbruck: Four finalists and comp debuts for GB Paraclimbing
- Getting started: Indoor climbing with kids
- Heavily eroded tourist hotspot path fixed by BMC volunteers in Eryri (Snowdonia)
- Have Your Say: 2025 to 2030 BMC Strategy Consultation
- Yr Wyddfa Big Clean Up | Volunteer with us | August 1st & 2nd
- Catherine Hawkins to step down as BMC Chair
- BMC Basecamp: A Volunteer Gathering | 8–10 August 2025
- FUNdamentals of Wellbeing
- How to use your digital BMC membership card
- Aska Kohashi-Khan
- Introducing the England and Wales Mountain Safety Forum
- Route setting: Zoë Wood on competition setting for the stars
- Fairy Cave Quarry Access
- The BMC is standing up for wild campers
- "Climbing saved my life" BMC Access Rep Iain Peters on surviving sexual abuse
- Ryan Smit
- Bolts and Fixed Equipment
- How to climb Triglav - the highest mountain in Slovenia
- BMC Peak Area Hill Walk | Thursday 21 August
- Dad of a Champion: A Father's Day interview with Carl McNeice
- BMC volunteers lay 25m of new, stone-pitched footpath in the Lake District
- 1% for the Planet accepts BMC ACT as Environmental Partner!
- BMC strengthens leadership ahead of the 2025 – 2030 strategy
- Magnesium: The Unsung Mineral Every Walker and Mountaineer Should Know About
- BMC Peak Area Hill Walk | Sunday 3rd August
- BMC Lakes Area Helm Crag Hike | Thursday 31st July
- Training for climbing and walking during pregnancy
- Watery rewilding success at BMC-owned Horseshoe Quarry, Peak District
- Five items you'll want for your Alpine trip this summer at Snow+Rock
- BMC Midlands Area Meeting
- BMC South West Area Meeting
- BMC North West Area Meeting
- BMC London and South East Area Meeting
- BMC South Wales Area Meeting
- BMC North Wales Meeting
- BMC Lakes Area Meeting
- BMC Peak Area Meeting
- Climbing legend Chris Bonington helps BMC access iconic Skeleton Ridge route on The Needles, Isle of Wight
- Senedd scraps cut-off date for recording historic paths in Wales
- Get back on the hills with Revive Active's smart recovery tips
- Unsightly, polluting, plastic matting in the Peak District ordered to be removed
- Support seagrass planting by shopping at Cotswold Outdoor this summer
- 187 stepping stones reduce footpath erosion in Eryri (Snowdonia)
- Supreme Court rules that Wild Camping on Dartmoor is legal
- All eight BMC-owned crags are now designated as CROW access land
- The Best Hiking Trails in Madeira
- BMC Yorkshire Hill Walk | Thursday 21st August
- Be wildfire aware: what to do during high fire risk
- Baa-rilliant idea! BMC volunteers use ancient Roman technique to make durable paths in Eryri (Snowdonia)
- Belay Better: Assisted braking devices
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