Climbing Scafell Pike from Wasdale

Along with several hundred others, I climbed Scafell Pike from Wasdale via the Hollow Stones Path, with a slight detour to also take in the summit of Lingmell Fell.

Lingmell Fell is 807m above sea level and Scafell Pike, as England's highest mountain, is 978m. The detour up Lingmell added an extra 80m to my total climb, having started from the base at 60m.

The rugged summit of Scafell Pike was shaped by glacial erosion of the Last Glacial Maximum (c. 20 kya), during which the Lake District was overlain by ice sheets with thicknesses of several kilometers.

Views include across Wast water, Styhead Tarn and over to Borrowdale, Derwent Water & Keswick in the north, a glimpse of the head of Lake Windermere and down to upper Eskdale.