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Fiona Russell

Life story of legendary Lake District fell-walking pioneer Alfred Wainwright celebrated in special year-long event

Golden light at sunrise with mist and fog above the Lake District landscape, taken on Loughrigg Fell near Ambleside.

If it wasn’t for Alfred Wainwright, fell walking and fell running might not be the hugely popular pastimes they are today. Certainly, the pursuit of Wainwright peak bagging in the English Lake District would never have been invented.

Now a special exhibition is set to shine the spotlight on the life and work of the fell-walking pioneer.

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