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Since the dawn of prehistory people have lived, worked and played in the Lake District fells, finding in them inspiration, adventure, sport, wealth and freedom.
In this lavishly illustrated follow-up to the award-winning Forty Farms, International Photography Awards winner Tom McNally and author David Felton embark on a journey to record the stories of forty fells in Cumbria.
Stories of the first settlers, who crafted axes from Pike o’ Stickle greenstone; of climbers from the golden age of mountaineering on Great Gable; of Romans at isolated Hard Knott; of campaigners who secured access onto Latrigg; and of the many people who work and live in the fells today.
With photographic profiles of shepherds on the Loweswater gather, endurance athletes on the Winter Spine, hostel life at England’s loneliest house and ecologists nurturing the Borrowdale rainforest, Forty Fells is a visual record of the Cumbrian uplands at a time of profound change.
Conversations with farmers, fell-runners and foresters; Wainwright-baggers, deer stalkers and authors; climbers, conservationists and carol singers take in all corners of the county, from Scafell Pike to Pillar, Cat Bells to Blencathra, Helvellyn to Haystacks.
The forty fells:
- Great Gable | Pioneer climbers and the Great Gift
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Haystacks | Alfred Wainwright and AW's legacy
- Hopegill Head | Hill farming
- Pike o' Stickle | The axes of prehistory
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Castle Crag | Atlantic rainforest and lichens
- Askham Fell | Deer
- Loughrigg Fell | Community on the fells and Christmas carols
- Scafell Pike | England’s highest peak
- Harter Fell (Eskdale) | A renewed forest
- Rosthwaite Fell | Mountain Rescue
- Dove Crag | Influencers
- Great Asby Scar | Limestone, walling and enclosure
- Hallin Fell | Race, access and Colonial Lakeland
- Pavey Ark | Outdoors professionals
- Harter Fell (Mardale) | Valley-scale nature recovery
- Steel Fell | The Bob Graham Round
- Great Dun Fell | The NATS Radome and England’s toughest cycle climb
- Robinson | Shepherd’s meet and fell run
- Cross Fell | The Pennine Way and Winter Spine
- Hard Knott | Roman Lakeland and the Fred Whitton
- Skiddaw | Loneliest house in England
- Great End | Ice climbing
- Mardale Ill Bell | Water and industry
- Whinlatter | Commercial forestry and Forestry England
- Rannerdale Knotts | Tall tales and bluebells
- Eycott Hill | Conservation farming
- Armboth Fell | Peat restoration
- Raven crag | Aviation photography and DJing
- Carrock Fell | Rock
- Scafell | Leo Houlding – climbing superstar
- Helvellyn | Fell-top assessors
- Cat Bells | Fix the Fells
- Gowbarrow Fell | The golden age of tourism – managing a tourist honeypot
- Latrigg | Access and the Latrigg Mass Trespass
- Raise | Skiing and social honeypots
- Coniston Old Man | Mining for copper
- Blencathra | Paragliding
- Fleetwith Pike | England’s last slate mine
- Pillar – Bagging, and a short history of Lakeland guidebooks
- Helm Crag – What next for the fells?