Teenager ‘saw friend crushed to death after climbing into fairground ride’
A teenager has described watching his 14-year-old friend being crushed to death after he climbed into a closed fairground ride in Dover. Mackenzie Croxford-Cook, from Deal in Kent, died on August 3 last year after entering the Forest Amusements Family Funfair in Pencester Gardens in Dover before it opened...
Bowlus Has a New and Cheaper Heritage Edition Camping Trailer
Bowlus is one of our favorite camping trailer manufacturers, building sumptuous luxury apartments with wheels and a trailer hitch. The rub has been that those trailers are more than a bit pricey, with Terra Firma models starting at $285,000. But Bowlus just announced a new base model, the Heritage...
Jersey couple take on Kilimanjaro climb to raise funds for disability charity
Mladen Jevtic and his wife Irena are taking on their second mountain climb in just four months as they fly to Namibia tomorrow to scale Mount Kilimanjaro. They will be joined by their friend Maja Platisa, a vet at New Era. The team are raising money for Acorn Enterprises,...
DBusiness Daily Update: Suburban Collection Showplace to Host Detroit RV & Camping Show Feb. 1-5, and More
Hundreds of RVs are expected to be on display at the 57th Annual Detroit RV & Camping Show at Suburban Collection Showplace. // Courtesy of Detroit RV & Camping Show Our roundup of the latest news from metro Detroit and Michigan businesses as well as announcements from government agencies....
The number of Americans earning over $100,000 who are living paycheck to paycheck is climbing as inflation squeezes households, survey shows
More Americans earning over $100,000 a year are living paycheck to paycheck, a new survey found.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images 51% of Americans earning over $100,000 a year are living paycheck to paycheck, a new survey found. That’s up from 42% of those surveyed by Pymnts.com and Lending Club at the...
Dartmoor National Park to appeal wild camping ban
Dartmoor National Park Authority has decided to appeal the recent High Court judgement that determined wild camping in the national park is not a legal right. On 13 January, Sir Julian Faulks ruled that the Dartmoor Commons Act of 1985 contained no provision to camp overnight and that any...
UKC Articles – ESSAY: Family Days on Iron Ways: Taking on a Via Ferrata with kids
As climbers we strive to make UKClimbing the kind of website we would love to visit, with the most up-to-date news, diverse and interesting articles, comprehensive gear reviews, breathtaking photographs and a vast and useful logbook system. As a result, an incredible community has formed around the site –...
More freedom camping in Marlborough proposed as bylaw inches closer
The number of vehicles allowed at Renwick Domain would increase from 10 to 20. Photo / Chloe Ranford / LDR Freedom campers may be spoilt for choice in Marlborough by next summer as a long-running bylaw change moves closer. The latest version of the bylaw, which needs to be...
‘The story was so remarkable’: what happened after a devastating climbing accident | Books
“It’s beautifully overwhelming,” says Michael Wejchert of the rock, ice and alpine routes he has climbed all over the world. “There’s a moment that anybody who’s climbed in a remote part of the Alaska range can remember where the plane flies away and suddenly the sound of the engine...
New Forest: Ten campsites taken over by show bosses
TEN campsites in the New Forest have been taken over by the organisation that stages the area’s biggest summer event. Camping New Forest is vowing to adopt a “back to nature” approach following claims that the popular facilities are having a harmful impact on the local environment. Last year Friends of the...