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Langdale Pikes – Lakeland’s Natural Billboard

Langdale Pikes – Lakeland’s Natural Billboard

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The classically romantic prospect of the Langdale Pikes, when viewed from the glittering shores of Windermere, or the agreeably open common at Elterwater, was the quintessential showcase of Lakeland’s mountain splendour for the Victorian tourist. Today, this bustle of bristling summits surmounting a bulging fellside and etching the skyline with compelling distinction, still possesses enough impact to stop you in your tracks. Nature has distilled a supreme blend of beauty and grandeur, creating a showpiece of irresistible attraction, where the…

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Blencathra – Lakeland’s North Star

Blencathra – Lakeland’s North Star

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Blencathra is amongst the Lake District’s finest mountains, its public face dominated by a battalion of fell tops spread along the extensive summit ridge, whose imperious presence descends dramatically in a riot of rocky ridges, down to the buzz of vehicles on the A66 trunk road at its foot. For the motorist on this highway, it is a spectacle that provides one of England’s finest driving views. The mountain displays all its treasures in one vast shop window, which creates…

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The Coniston Fells – a mountain or a massif?

The Coniston Fells – a mountain or a massif?

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The Old Man of Coniston is the crowning peak of southern Lakeland and one of the most popular ascents in the Lake District. When viewed from the shores of Coniston Water, the mountain exerts a massively dominating presence, although the Old Man is merely the highest point (and only that by supposition) amongst a compact range of seven summits, each offering equally rewarding exploration. For that reason, this particular ‘Worthy’ is not a solitary hill but a collective, under the…

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Black Combe – Lakeland by the Sea

Black Combe – Lakeland by the Sea

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Black Combe is an outlier, the elephant in the room of the Lake District Wainwrights. It is an isolated sentinel occupying the south west tip of the National Park, yet linked by continuous high ground to the Coniston range, whose mountains jostle for attention amidst the celebrated heights of the national park. Black Combe shrugs off stardom, you take it or leave it, nonetheless, the hill presents a bulky presence that cannot be ignored. And of course, it is hill,…

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