from Liverpool Echo - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Lake District children's author Arthur Ransome wrote "We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea" about a group of kids who accidentally end up crossing the world's busiest shipping lanes in a dingy. Their adventure ends in Holland having started...
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Sharp Edge, Blencathra, is not as famous as Striding Edgenear Helvellynor Crib Goch in North Wales but it's still capable of striking fear deep into the racing ventricles of your heart. From above in good light it is imposing as...
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Aoraki is a breathtaking sight when it shrugs off its habitual cloak of cloud. I went hunting for my old pictures of the Kiwi icon after the All Blacks satisfying win in the World Cup final. I loved New Zealand...
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Base Brown juts into Borrowdale stealing the limelight from its bigger neighbours by virtue of an elegant profile. Once up top it provides a satisfying round with unparalleled views of Ennerdale....
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from Liverpool Echo - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Teacher training is eating up large parts of my weekends and preventing me from getting out on the Lake District fells as much as I'd like. Then I go on Flickr and see contacts take wonderful pictures of their experiences...
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from Liverpool Echo - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
I have a nice old steel framed road bike locked up in my shed. Just next to it is a nice old steel framed mountain bike. They have a collective age of about 45. They don't see much action in...
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from Liverpool Echo - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Steeple soars above lonely Ennerdale, the pinnacle at the top of an inviting ridge. On a half decent day it looks like professional landscape tog Andy Beck's photograph (above). It's a pretty decent route up a fairly big hill but...
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from Liverpool Echo - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Living on the edge of the hills my focus is often south towards the likes of Grasmoor and the Buttermere valley or the hulking girt frame of Skiddaw. But facing westward means that every so often the skies refuse to...
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The Kentmere Round takes in nine Wainwrights in about 13 miles. It also provided me with my first glimpse of Haweswater....
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from Liverpool Echo - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Alfred Wainwright's Lake District guidebooks are beautiful things. His attention to detail and meticulous drawings have done as much to popularise the Lake District as Beatrix Potter and William Wordsworth. Since moving to the edge of the Lake District exactly...
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