A BIG cycling event is set to take place in Great Langdale on Sunday. Endurance sports organiser, Epic Events is hosting the Lakeland Loop Cycle Sportive, a challenging 86.5-mile bike ride around the Lake District. Starting from the New Dungeon Ghyll ...
From Oxenholme, I took a short train ride to Windermere and the Old Dungeon Ghyll—the magnificently grimly named inn in the Great Langdale valley where I'd spend that night, doubtful I'd get such heavenly sunshine again during my stay in the district.
A man who cheated death when he crashed into a Lake District fell while paragliding returned to Cumbria to meet his rescuers. Dave Tighe is now more than 3cm shorter after breaking his back in the accident on Tarn Crag in Great Langdale in May last year.
A paraglider who fell 80ft in the Lake District, and suffered life threatening injuries, has met the Air Ambulance rescuers who saved his life. Dave Tighe, 42, was paragliding at Tarn Crag in Great Langdale in May last year, when the wing of his ...
The Great North Air Ambulance came to Dave Tighe's aid when he fell more than 80ft at Tarn Crag in Great Langdale. The incident in May last year left the 42-year-old with a broken spine and multiple life-threatening injuries. He's now back on his feet ...
Rescue teams from across the Lakes responded after the young woman fell 40 metres from Gimmer Crag, Great Langdale, at around 12.50pm yesterday. A spokesman for Langdale and Ambleside MRT said: "She sustained serious multiple injuries. Weather ...