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Alfred Wainwright

November 2022

  • The cairn on the top of Ill Bell on Remembrance Sunday.

    I climbed a mountain in the Lake District – to mark a two-minute silence with strangers

    Every year, walkers from all over the north join members of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club on a trek up Great Gable in remembrance of those who have lost their lives in conflict

August 2022

  • Hiker with rucksack walking next to Angle Tarn

    Alfred Wainwright’s coast-to-coast walk to be made National Trail

    Spectacular country walk through Lake District and Yorkshire Dales will be made more accessible

March 2022

  • Female hiker looking North East down the Coledale Vally towards Braithwaite on the Coledale Horshoe trail in the Lake District.<br>RA0HRT Female hiker looking North East down the Coledale Vally towards Braithwaite on the Coledale Horshoe trail in the Lake District.

    I hated walking for 20 years, now I’m aiming to climb all 214 Lake District peaks

    Returning to her native Cumbria, our writer sets off to bag all the Wainwrights – and discovers the soothing power of the hills

October 2019

  • Kathleen Jamie.

    Kathleen Jamie: 'Nature writing has been colonised by white men'

    The genre’s current boom is dominated by middle-class males, she says, but the author of Surfacing prefers to concentrate on ‘deep time’

July 2019

  • Looking down on Buttermere on the route of rambler Alfred Wainwright’s favourite walk to Hay Stacks in the Lake District.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about walking in Britain

    Travelling on foot is a national obsession that has inspired a whole tradition of great writing, from Laurie Lee to Iain Sinclair

November 2017

  • Fell Walking - Alfred Wainwright<br>Author and fell walker Alfred Wainwright.

    Alfred Wainwright may have had autism, biographer says

    Book discusses famous fell walker’s obsessiveness and need for a ‘compulsive rigidity’ as he compiled intricate Lakeland guidebooks

August 2017

  • Red poppies bloom around the first world war monument on Frezenberg Ridge in Zonnebeke, Belgium, from where three Scottish Divisions marched into the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917.

    Wainwright prize for nature writing won by 'extraordinary book' on first world war

    Where Poppies Blow by John Lewis-Stempel studies how the natural world helped sustain the morale of troops contending with the horror of the trenches

August 2014

  • Alfred Wainwright, writer on the Lake District.

    Notes and queries
    What Lake District guide did Alfred Wainwright use?

    Readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts

July 2012

  • Number 800 bike bus, Windermere, Lake District

    The Northerner
    Lake District launches £7 million sustainable transport pilot

    The fellwalker Alfred Wainwright was an early champion of using buses to reach the fells of the Lake District. Now a £6.9 million sustainable transport scheme looks set to take a leaf out of his book. If it works, it could mean a revolution in how we access the UK's national parks. Ellis Butcher takes a look.

February 2009

  • Alfred Wainwright, writer on the Lake District

    Books blog
    Why private genius Alfred Wainwright deserves a public monument

    Ben Myers: Highly uncomfortable in any kind of spotlight, the lyric master of the guide book is due a memorial statue

December 2008

  • Rainbow in the Lake District

    Summit talks

    iPod versions of Alfred Wainwright 's Lakeland hillwalking guides are a great way to cajole your kids up a mountain, says Kevin Rushby

May 2007

  • Whitehaven, Cumbria

    Seacliffs to shingle

    In an edited extract from his book Coast to Coast Walk, Martin Wainwright follows in the footsteps of the walks' creator Alfred Wainwright, 192 miles from St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay.

August 2006

  • Ramble on

    Martin Wainwright

    Martin Wainwright: Alfred Wainwright's coast-to-coast walk has brought unexpected prosperity to backwaters whose economies have long been on the back foot.

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