The Wainwright Companion

The Wainwright Companion book is now well and truly launched! Copies are now available signed by the photographer, Sean McMahon of www.stridingedge.net and his faithful Bearded Collie sidekicks, Dougal and Casper who both have their own 'pawprint' stamps. They are priced at £16.99 + £2.20 postage each (UK only, overseas buyers please contact me before ordering).

The Wainwright Companion is a fully illustrated collection of fascinating facts, statistics, trivia and opinion based on A Wainwright's legendary guidebooks to the English Lake District. Which fell has most waterfalls? The longest ridges? The roughest ascent? The best views? The wettest path? The only ascent description that starts with a descent? And what did AW ever do for the Romans? All these questions and hundreds more are answered in this ‘book about the books’ – the seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and their companion, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Authored by Clive Hutchby, photos by Sean McMahon of www.stridingedge.net

The stunning photographs in this book were taken by locally born SEAN MCMAHON, who has completed four ascents of all 214 fells featured in AW's first seven guidebooks (better get a move on to make this true!-Sean) (many with his inseparable bearded collies Casper and Dougal and the late Angus, King of the Fells). He is well known amongst walkers for his excellent photo diary www.stridingedge.net. Sean and his wife Louise own the gift shops Love the Lakes in Bowness and Keswick. They live on the edge of the Lake District National Park.

CLIVE HUTCHBY climbed his very first Lakeland fell just two years after the publication of the last of the legendary fellwalker and guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright's seven Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, and a full six years before the author relented to 'pressure' from his fans and produced his final guide to the mountains of the Lake District, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.