Wainwright's Lakeland & England's North Country (1986)
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.
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Episode 1 - In Limestone Country
Release Date: 1986-05-12AW and Eric climb Pen-y-ghent in Yorkshire's limestone country, discovering that its charms are as abundant below ground as above.
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Episode 2 - On Lakeland's Far Eastern Fells
Release Date: 1986-05-19AW 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."
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Episode 3 - On the Pennine Way
Release Date: 1986-05-26Twenty years after AW published his pictorial guide to The Pennine Way, he guides Eric Robson through perhaps the finest section beginning at Wynch Bridge in Teesdale and finishing 2,700 feet up in the Pennines.
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Episode 4 - On the Howgill Fells
Release Date: 1986-06-02AW introduces Eric Robson to this neglected group of Cumbrian hills just north of Sedbergh. In addition to viewing the spectacular waterfall at Cautley Spout, reliving the history of Fox's Pulpit and savouring the quiet beauty of Bowderdale, the pair begin their exploration on the western fringes of the Howgills.
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Episode 5 - On the Lakeland Fells
Release Date: 1986-06-09In an emotional journey, AW returns with Eric Robson to the places that hold special memories—to Orrest Head ("an awakening beauty"), to Borrowdale ("the loveliest square mile in Lakeland") and to Haystacks ("the best fell top of all"), and recalls the making of his unique Guide to the Lakeland Fells.