I recently completed a Mountain Leader Qualification assessment: an intense, physically and mentally exhausting five days in the Cumbrian fells with two nights out in high winds and sub zero temperatures. We were continuously assessed on our navigation; both day and night, in all weathers and mostly off path, as well as group leadership and …
A Terrible Beauty Every now and then one comes across something so unexpected and so poignant that it stops you in your tracks. This literally happened to me recently when descending from dense fog on the summit of Scafell. I had left the main path and struck out on a compass bearing to find an …
Latest gallery of photographs from East and Central Cumbria- includes a conjunction between the planets Venus and Jupiter
High, much higher than one can imagine The soaring skyline of Pike O’Stickle Ablaze. Fire-set rock alive again With percussive blows, little by little Rough cut quarry men, rough out axes of greenstone Volcanic tuff exposed in time lost land. They are at one with the stone, names unknown, Everything to hand, everything by hand. …