Wainwright's Lakeland & England's North Country
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Wainwright's Lakeland & England's North Country

When the young Alfred Wainwright first saw the mountains of Lakeland it was an experience that changed his life. As an old man he recreated his love affair with Lakeland in the company of Eric Robson, exploring Orrest Head and Kendal, Haweswater and Borrowdale. It was journey that culminated in an emotional visit to his favorite mountain—Haystacks.

2. On Lakeland's Far Eastern Fells

0.0May 19, 1986 · 29 min

AW shows Eric Robson some of the delights still to be discovered above Haweswater. They enter the valley on the "Old Corpse Road" from Shap and survey its full extent at the summit of High Street. Wainwright recalls his first visit there more than 50 years ago to see Mardale before it was flooded and where now "there's nothing left but ghosts."