Nowhere Fast Walking the Wainwrights
- ISBN-10
- 1850589836
- ISBN-13
- 9781850589839
- Category
- Lake District (England)
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-02-07
- Author
- Andy Grigg
Description
'Nowhere Fast' is the story of one family's attempt to climb all the Wainwights - 214 of the country's highest mountains, all situated in the English Lake District. Climbing over one hundred and ninety five thousand feet (six times the height of Mount Everest), and walking nearly six hundred miles over the course of six years, Nowhere Fast follows the journey of Andy, Tania and their two sons as they battle the elements and scale the peaks.
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