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Springtime for via ferrata, Lake Garda, Italy Spring in northern Lake Garda is an adventure paradise. I’ve been several times and enjoyed the via ferratas: iron cables fixed to scrambling routes, which require fitness and sense of adventure but not technical mountaineering skills (safety equipment required). The views are amazing …

Shomari Figures, a former Justice Department official, and State Representative Anthony Daniels will head to a runoff election in the Democratic primary for Alabama’s Second Congressional District, according to The Associated Press. Voters were weighing in for the first time in the newly shaped Second District, which had been redrawn …

As the largest national park in England, and muse to the likes of Wordsworth and Swift (Taylor, not Jonathan), the Lake District needs no introduction. My friend Anthony, on the other hand, who has yet to appear on a postcard or be recognised by Unesco, almost certainly does. Anthony and …

Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of Alhaji Ali Adamu Saleh, the District Head of Sarkin-Kudu in Ibi Local Government Area of Taraba State.   The district head was killed in his palace on Friday, December 15, 2023.      Spokesperson of the Taraba State Police …

The district head of Sarkin Kudu town in Ibbi Local Government Area of Taraba State, Ali Hakimi has reportedly been killed by bandits.    Ali Hakimi was reportedly attacked in his palace at Sarkin Kudu town at about 12.30am on Friday, December 15. An eyewitness told Daily Trust that the …

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) of the Capitol tours on the eve of 1/6 could see his seat turned into a majority black district after a court tossed out Georgia’s GOP gerrymandered map. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported: In his ruling, Jones directed lawmakers to create …

Senator Gabriel Suswam of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been announced as winner of the February 25 election for Benue Northeast senatorial district.   A National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal which sat for over three hours in Makurdi, Benue State, sacked the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Emmanuel Udende from …

Alfred Wainwright’s coast-to-coast trail through Cumbria and North Yorkshire over mountains and moorland is one of the UK’s most popular long-distance walks, with an estimated 6,000 people completing the whole 197 miles each year, and lots more walking shorter sections. In August 2022 the government announced it would become England’s …

In the dining room of the Wasdale Head Inn, explorer and climber Leo Houlding is inspecting the walls, looking back 150 years to the origins of mountain adventure as a sport. On a shelf is a stack of old hobnail boots, a pair of ice axes crossed above a brace …

It happened at an indoor wall for the sport of “bouldering”. I was standing watching some athletic young men conquer a tricky route that was beyond my abilities, half-listening to their banter, when I suddenly understood what they were discussing. A proposal to climb outdoors. They had never done it. …