Pioneers
Lakeland has always attracted pioneers. For the city-dwellers of Northern England, the hills and the lakes became an adventure playground. Here the first steam-boats were tested - speed records were broken -and here the earliest climbers learned the techniques which enabled them later to conquer the highest peaks in the world. Bob Langley tells the story of the Lakeland adventurers -and himself follows the first route up Pillar Rock.
Director PETER HERCOMBE