THE UPHILL STRUGGLER

I've been testing out ACAI's Mid-Weight hiking trousers in the Lake District.

"What do you want to do for New Year, Charlotte?" asks Pete. "Lakes?" I reply. And so it was we found ourselves spending a gloriously...

A fun fell for all the family?

Latrigg is one of those very easy minor fells – a fell for absolute beginners.

Loughrigg is a small fell at just 368m and the path begins and ends in Ambleside.

Ullock Pike translates from the Old Norse as ‘the peak where the wolves play. I was hooked.

This monster of a mountain looms above Keswick with the sort of sweeping slopes that throw all sense of perspective out of whack.

Although we had previously hiked Scafell Pike, it was Cat Bells that first sparked my interest in climbing all 214 Wainwrights.

What better way to begin all 214 Wainwright fells of the Lake District than with the tallest one?