Peak Bagging: Wainwrights: 45 routes designed to complete all 214 of Wainwright's Lake District fells in the most efficient way

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Karen and Dan have been running, walking and orienteering in the Lake District fells for over three decades now. Wainwright himself wrote that "From the south it appears as a great horseshoe of grassy slopes below a consistently high skyline [. Over fifty years ago, renowned British hillwalker and guidebook author Alfred Wainwright described 214 peaks in the English Lake District in his seven-volume illustrated Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. And is 2,000ft the correct qualifying height, or should it be 600m, or is relative height far more important than absolute height? James is passionate about hill-walking, wild camping and peak-bagging, and describes himself as a ‘self-taught adventurer’– which is a polite way of saying he gets lost a lot (he once walked for two days in the wrong direction on the GR20 hike in Corsica).

On each one you will find room to record which mountains, peaks and hills you have climbed (or 'bagged') and offer mouth watering inspiration for your next walk. Beyond lies The Howitzer, a fear-inducing slab of angled rock that can only be gained with some skilled scrambling. Intrepid and confident souls might give the nerve-jangling scramble a go (extreme caution advised), but don’t worry if you don’t fancy it – Alfred Wainwright famously wimped out of it.

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You're on top of a crag, and then as you climb further up around the back side, you're able to get these more expansive views over the hills on the south side of Ullswater. The routes are split into seven sections, reflecting Wainwrights seven Pictorial Guides, and to simplify logistics, all of the featured routes are circular with an emphasis on making practical links between the summits. There were no specific criteria to select the 214 distinctive peaks that would be (intimately) chronicled in Alfred Wainwright's seven-volume pictorial guide. Is their approach adventurous and admirable, or does it suck the romance and heart out of mountain-climbing? Two thousand feet is often cited as the required height, but not always – and there is little consensus about anything else.Instead Alfred includes lots of small, easy fells (Latrigg, Loughrigg, Castle Crag, to name but a few), judging peaks by virtue of beauty, drama and significance, not their height.