What are the Wainwright walks?
A Wainwright is the summit of what A. W. There are 214 ‘Wainwrights’ which many walkers try to get to the top of or ‘bag’. Many of our guided walks take in Wainwright ‘summits’. Some of the Wainwrights are easy, gentle, family-friendly walks; Black Fell, Castle Crag and Latrigg for example. While others require more strenuous walking; rugged fells such as Scafell Pike, Great Gable and Helvellyn via Striding Edge are often regarded as some of the hardest or more challenging fells.Known as one of the most difficult climbs of The Wainwright’s, Rosthwaite Fell (aka Bessyboot) is an undiscovered gem in the heart of The Lakes. The trek to the top can be steep in places, plus, the routes are not well documented. This however makes the fell a quiet and undisturbed climb to the top.Some of the Wainwrights are easy, gentle, family-friendly walks; Black Fell, Castle Crag and Latrigg for example. While others require more strenuous walking; rugged fells such as Scafell Pike, Great Gable and Helvellyn via Striding Edge are often regarded as some of the hardest or more challenging fells.
Why are they called Wainwrights?
The Wainwrights are named after Alfred Wainwright, a British fell walker who fell in love with the Lake District. Alfred Wainwright and his pictorial guides of Lakeland Fells are now synonymous with the Lake District. One of the fells in the guides is Catbells that stands proudly alongside Derwentwater in the northern lakes.Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991) will always be known for his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. These handwritten and hand-drawn works of art have given inspiration to all true fellwalkers for the past forty years. Visit Cumbria’s page on the master fellwalker.
What are the 214 Wainwrights?
Wainwrights are the 214 English peaks (known locally as fells) described in Alfred Wainwright’s seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells (1955–66). They all lie within the boundary of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, and all but one (Castle Crag) are over 1,000 feet (304. Some of the Wainwrights are easy, gentle, family-friendly walks; Black Fell, Castle Crag and Latrigg for example. While others require more strenuous walking; rugged fells such as Scafell Pike, Great Gable and Helvellyn via Striding Edge are often regarded as some of the hardest or more challenging fells.
What’s smaller than a Munro?
Grahams are mountains which scale between 2000 and 2500 ft high, just slightly shorter than Corbetts (over 2500 ft) and Munros (over 3000 ft). They might be on the shorter scale, but Grahams boast equally impressive views and a great sense of achievement when climbing to the top. For example, Munros are mountains in Scotland over 3000ft. Height isn’t always a distinguishing factor though, as in the case of the Wainwrights, which are simply those fells detailed by Alfred Wainwright in his famous Lake District walking books.Grahams are mountains which scale between 600m and 2,500 ft high, just shorter than Corbetts (over 2,500 ft) and Munros (over 3,000 ft). They might be on the shorter scale, but Grahams boast equally impressive views and a great sense of achievement when climbing to the top.Scotland’s Munros are quite possibly the most famous list of mountains in the UK, competing with the Wainwrights in the Lake district. So what are they? It is a list of Scottish Mountains over 3000ft with ‘sufficient separation’ from neighbouring mountains.
Is Ben Nevis a mountain or Munro?
The best known Munro is Ben Nevis (Beinn Nibheis), the highest mountain in the British Isles at 4,411 ft (1,345 m). Munros are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet (1856–1919), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munro’s Tables, in 1891. A vast mountain to the north of Inverness, Ben Wyvis is one of the easiest munros to climb. The mountain offers a relatively easy ascent and impressive views out across huge swathes of the Highlands from the top.