Alfred Wainwright's name has become synonymous with the 214 peaks featured in his guide books [Chris Butterfield/Ken Shepherd] The Christmas break is a busy time for the Lake District, with ...

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Amateur and professional photographers are being encouraged to put Alfred Wainwright’s Lake District in the picture for a new competition. The Cumberland Ale Keswick Mountain Festival is launching the ...

A LAKE DISTRICT society has raised over £12,000 for a much respected Cumbrian charity, with the sales of their 2025 calendar.

LONDON (Reuters) - Ramblers can now download onto their iPods a guide to one of the Lake District's most popular climbs by the doyen of fell-walking in the area, Alfred Wainwright. One hundred years ...

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Running 325 miles with 36,000m of elevation gain around the Lake District is unfathomable. Doing it in winter snow and high winds would be written off as impossible by most people. But James Gibson ...

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The Christmas break is a busy time for the Lake District, with holidaymakers and day-trippers taking advantage of a bit of down time to "tick a Wainwright" - the practice of climbing one of 214 peaks ...