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Winter Walks in the Lake District
Fell walks & easy snow climbs for the winter mountaineer
- Paperback
- ISBN: 9781911342281128 pages
- Author
- Stephen Goodwin
- Publication date
- 4 Jan 2018
Local author Stephen Goodwin has selected his favourite cold-weather outings, which all share the magic and exhilaration that snow or even a hoar frost brings to the Lakeland fells.
The routes include accessible jaunts up Gowbarrow, High Rigg and Latrigg, Keswick’s ‘house mountain’ – an ideal spot to survey the snow cover on the bigger tops to the south; ascents of Helvellyn from the east and west, via classic and lesser-known ridgelines, or graded climbs on Browncove Crags and Nethermost Pike; high-level horseshoes above Haweswater and Langdale; and, of course, ascents of the classics – Scafell Pike, Blencathra, Great End – although not necessarily by the most travelled routes.
Alongside advice on winter conditions and kit, each of the routes in this book features detailed introductions and directions, Ordnance Survey 1:25,000-scale maps, photo topos for the graded winter climbs where appropriate, and local information such as the best pubs and cafes.
Stephen Goodwin is the author of Lake District Climbs and Scrambles (2015, Vertebrate Publishing) and Day Walks in the Lake District (2009, Vertebrate Publishing). At the turn of the millennium after a career as a political journalist on The Independent and The Times, he quit the surreal ‘Westminster village’ for a real village in Cumbria. For ten years (2004–2013) he was editor of the Alpine Journal, the oldest mountaineering journal in the world, while also freelance writing on travel, the environment and just a dash of politics. A climber and ski-mountaineer, in 1998 he reached the south summit of Everest, filing an award-winning diary to The Independent. Since then he has returned to the Himalaya most years, as well as climbing, trekking and ski-touring in the Alps, Andes, Turkey and Norway. Most of all though, he loves getting out on his home turf, the English Lake District.
- Title: Winter Walks in the Lake District
- Sub-title: Fell walks & easy snow climbs for the winter mountaineer
- Author: Stephen Goodwin
- Imprint: Vertebrate Publishing
- ISBN: 9781911342281
- Rights: Worldwide
- Publication date: 4 January 2018
- Edition: First
- Format: Paperback
- Size: 175mm x 120mm
- Extent: 160 pages; full colour with Ordnance Survey 1:25,000-scale maps and photo-topos
- Cover: Paperback
- Weight: 190g
- Retail price: £14.95
'This book is not one for the experienced mountaineer, nor those looking for hard to reach 'hidden gems' - instead it's perfectly pitched for up and coming mountaineers who are looking for an introduction to some cracking winter fell walks and fun snow climbs in the Lakes.'
– Amazon reviewer
'I really like the format of Vertebrate's pocket-sized guides. I already use their Mountain Biking book in my local area, and it is great to have full OS maps for each route as well as turn-by-turn instructions and key information.'
– Amazon reviewer
'It includes some beautiful photography that makes you want to get out in the hills!'
– Amazon reviewer
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