Last year's runner-up issues statement

The team of three Europeans claim a misunderstanding between themselves and a group of Sherpas deteriorated into an ugly scene

Sergei Pomazun arrested by two transport police as he tried to flee the city on a freight train

Magnificent mountain biking above Cortina d'Ampezzo

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An elderly Swiss woman has died after falling 100m into a ravine in the Lake District.

A Swiss walker has died after plunging 328ft (100m) into a ravine in the Lake District.

A driver died and four people were critically injured when a coach carrying young Britons collided with a cliff-face and exploded into flames in the French Alps.

Christopher Knight, who has become known as the North Pond Hermit, reportedly spent 27 years in the woods of Maine

Dawn blooms and stirs the trees of Abernethy Forest into life. This far north, winter still battles spring for the primeval ground. Mist hangs between incalculable ranks of pines; silver light spills and glimmers over a deep carpet of green moss, russet blaeberry and frost-tipped ling. A waist-high ants' nest bubbles from the ground. From the corner of my eye, a pine bough appears to ripple as a red squirrel skitters along. Then the birds strike up: coal tits, a greenfinch and, from somewhere imperceptible in the thin fog, the cork-popping aria of a male capercaillie.

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If you've always wanted to explore some of Earth's highest peaks but lack the willingness to actually, like, climb a mountain, then you might be interested to hear about Google Map's latest operation.

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