The Wainwright Memorial Walk (2000)

In 1938 the pioneering fell-walker, Alfred Wainwright, devised a walking tour in the English Lake District. For almost sixty years it was one of Lakeland's best kept secrets, yet in its 102 miles and almost 35,000 feet of ascent it would visit and enjoy every major summit, valley and lake. In AW's memory Eric Robson, his fell-walking companion in the award winning BBC television series, has reconstructed the walk in eleven day stages and on the way met many of AW's friends and admirers. Among them are his widow Betty, his biographer Hunter Davies and three generations of walkers who've been inspired in the ways of the Lakeland mountains by his classic fell-walking guides.