The mountains of Lake District

The mountains in the Lake District are also beautiful.
I climbed Mt.Wetherlam, located northwest of Lake Coniston. Compared to the hustle and bustle of Kanchenjunga (OLD MAN OF CONSTON), which I climbed five years ago, this place is very quiet. I found the pond a little off the route. It was a beautiful little pond with cotton grass.
The mountain towering behind Coniston YH seems to be made entirely of large rocks, and I really wanted to climb it. So, I headed for this rocky mountain first. Above it was a rocky plain that was said to be the High Tops. From here, you can climb to Wetherlam along the ridge.
From the summit, a landscape of rocks spreads out, which is hard to believe for mountains less than 1000m above sea level. Rocky mountains that look like they have climbed the 3000m-class mountains of the Northern Alps in Japan continue all the way to the north.
In the lower parts of the mountain, there are a number of abandoned mines. As written in "The Swallow's Carrier Pigeon," these were apparently places where copper ore and stone slate, which was used for roofing tiles, were mined.

Writing of Alfred Wainwright

Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991) wrote a mountaineering guidebook for the mountains of the Lake District. Not only is his work a very well-written mountaineering guidebook, but even the text in the guides is all handwritten. No type is used at all. I am impressed by the beauty of the pen drawings, which are easy to understand and read. The various climbing routes to one mountain are shown in a way that goes beyond a map, and the altitude, rock shapes, and views are all shown in wonderful sketches. I had no idea that such a book had been written until I actually got my hands on it.


　　"A PICTORIAL GUIDE TO THE LAKELAND FELLS"
　　　　　A.Wainwright FRANCES LINCOLN ￡11.99

Among seven series, the mountains such as old men around Coniston water are
BOOK FOUR THE SOUTHERN FELLS

I bought this book in a mountain-climbing equipment shop of the Lake District.
Publication 1960 of the first edition is slightly old, but a state and trail of the mountain are not changed. I admire the effort of the author who wrote such a great book as a mountain climbing guidebook. When I read this book, will it be only me to want to go to climb the written mountains in sequence?
If I can come to the Lake District again, I aim when it is uphill and wants to go to the mountains written in this book here and there this time.

The height of the mountain
2502ft. Wetherlam
2633ft. Coniston Old Man ('Kanchenjunga')
Not a meter, it is not the mountain which is particularly high because it is feet unit (1feet=0.3m). But it is just rocky like the ridgeline of the Japan Alps. I can climb it if I do my best for several hours because air is not thin.
When I wanted to obtain a book of this wainwright books more, I looked for amazon.co.uk (U.K.), but understood that I was available from amazon.co.jp (Japan) as a foreign book recently.