Scafell Pike is also the nation’s greatest war memorial; a place of beauty and grandeur to pay tribute to fallen heroes. Collected together for no other reason than they were the favourites of Alfred Wainwright, a British walker, illustrator and author. co dbottomley dobben57 doc Doccrichton DougBurke doug_scott drinki dwhiteway Earl Grey edgradwell Elfmcguinness Emma Ericthewanderer fellfox fitzydan fizzerfox funit10 g. Peak Bagging the Wainwrights is a way of discovering and experiencing new mountains, peaks, tops and hills that you might have not otherwise thought of walking on - often in glorious solitude well away from the crowded honeypots. The walk ticks off five Wainwrights – Pillar, Scoat Fell, Steeple, Red Pike and Yewbarrow – and serves up stunning views of others including the Scafell Massif and Great Gable.

It differs in format from Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells (which comprises seven volumes listing 214 mountains and tops - each with its own chapter) in that each of its 56 chapters describes a walk rather than a single fell - often taking in several minor tops along the way.

The Wainwrights have become a right of passage for many Lake District locals, as well as being a draw for ramblers all over the UK.

Like the Munros in Scotland, bagging all the Wainwrights has become a popular and significant challenge for walkers and runners, often taking many years in fits and starts because of the absence of a clear plan for how to link them together. Also available are special versions of the above Lake District Peak Bagging Maps and Tick Lists that include the 59 walks that visit all 214 Wainwrights.Karen is the current British age-group champion and a former international orienteer, and in his twenties and thirties Dan has ran the elite class in many mountain marathons, winning the LAMM elite course in 1996. All but one of these fells exceed 1,000 feet in height, lying within the boundary of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria​. There are 282, including many of the UK’s most dramatic and remote mountains, and completing the list is a lifelong ambition of all self-respecting British peak-baggers. Wainwright himself wrote that "From the south it appears as a great horseshoe of grassy slopes below a consistently high skyline [.