Simply Delightful

The footage of lesser seen, yet stunning areas of Lakeland

Keith Yeoman | Calderbridge Cumbria | March 2024

Superb Escapism

A quick message to say how much I appreciated your Wainwright's Remote Lakeland film with Eric Robson. As a keen fell walker myself watching Eric walk across these magnificent fells and listening to his humorous observations is superb escapism for me. Thanks for making such an excellent series of films.

Gary | Peckham | January 2024

Very clever and literate

We were fortunate to travel from the U.S. last spring to finish our 214 as we began retirement. Our journey was partly inspired by the DVDs we have watched that have been distributed by Striding Edge. We have been lucky to walk with and get to know David Powell-Thompson. He accompanied us on our 214th - Yewbarrow.

We just had a chance to watch Eric’s Remote Lakeland Route videos earlier today. We will try to do this route next. Even though we have climbed all the Wainwrights, it looks like about two-thirds of the route will be new ground for us.

Please let Eric know that he should be proud of the writing for these videos. Very clever and literate. Wainwright could not have written the script better.

Matt and Taysia Malone | Oregon | July 2022

This magnificent 14-day walk serves as a companion piece to another great Striding Edge video "The Wainwright Memorial Walk." While the latter DVD covers the more highly traveled central fells, "Remote Lakeland" covers the outer rim of the region, where (as both Eric Robson and Alfred Wainwright note) one is less likely to run into the dreaded "coach parties" and "tourist honeypots." Covering 190 miles and 39,000 feet of ascent, Robson begins and ends at Penrith, traveling counter-clockwise through Scales, Hesket Newmarket, Loweswater, Nether Wasdale, Boot, High Newton, Staveley, and Bampton, moving through some of the fells where the ancient Romans built their mountain high road. Along the way, Robson recounts lots of local lore and "carefully chosen anecdotes," such as the coffin-carrying pack horse that bolted with its cargo and was never seen or heard again (maybe). The changing weather is much in evidence: on Day 4, Robson and his crew are brought to a stop by a torrential downpour; days later they navigate their way through snow on Harter Fell. (The walk takes place in autumn, allowing for the more dramatic play on light on the stunning landscapes.) Robson encounters such curiosities as a stone circle that even Wainright thought was millenia old, but was later discovered to have been a fake, constructed in the 1920s. He also stops to pay tribute to the village of Mardale Green, permanently submerged in 1935 when the Manchester Corporation built a dam to supply water for the Haweswater Reservoir. There's a nice touch at the end of the journey when the individuals on Robson's crew trudge back to Penrith as their names appear in the closing credits.

Larry B | Ventura, California | October 2018