fell walking and fell running might not be the hugely popular pastimes they are today. Certainly, the pursuit of Wainwright peak bagging in the English Lake District would never have been invented.

The Lake District is somewhere you can ... fells (the 214 peaks included in Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells) this walk chalks off eight of them with relatively little ...

The famous author Alfred Wainwright believed its challenging Hall’s Fell ... with some of the most stirring views in the entire English Lake District. This walk from Wasdale involves a lung-bursting ...

Wainwright, known as AW, became synonymous with the Lake District for his guidebooks and ... up to Innominate Tarn "He asked me if I did fell walking... I replied that I did my national service ...

Three brothers will take on the 200-mile Coast to Coast walk this June to raise funds for the Taxi Charity for Military ...

The setting of the Lakeland village of Grasmere, Wainwright said ... For him the introduction to the Lake District, when he came here for a week's holiday in 1930, riveted his whole life to ...

A nine-year-old schoolboy has become the youngest climber ever to conquer all the 'Wainwrights' twice, climbing a total of 428 peaks. One year later, he conquered Toubkal, at 4,167 m (13,671 ft ...