Why is Alfred Wainwright associated with the Lake District’s fells?
A He wrote guidebooks
B He opened the first pub
C He discovered the fells
Alfred Wainwright, or A. Wainwright as he preferred to be called, is the name to seek out if you’re interested in fells. He walked 214 of them and produced a series of seven highly annotated, hand-drawn guidebooks between 1955 and 1966 that detail what you’ll encounter during an excursion to ‘The Wainwrights,’ as the fells have come to be called. Less than a thousand people have walked every single one of them.
The correct answer is He wrote guidebooks.