Fix the Fells and Protect the Lakes
Shayan Nejad is raising money for Lake District Foundation
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Lakeland Southbound
I'm hiked the entire length of the Lake District, a journey of over 132 kilometres and over 7,200m of total elevation gain. This took me six days of continuous hiking over some of the Lakes' most recognised summits. This effort was to raise money for Fix the Fells.
Why they need Help
The Lake District attracts millions of footsteps every year, walking along its many paths. But these paths can't handle the traffic without wearing down, eroding and weathering into the lakes below. They need protecting and rebuilding in order to maintain our access to the mountains and to protect them for generations to come.
Fix the Fells is the charity that's doing that. But they need continued support to achieve this. The helicopter alone costs £3,500 a mission to run and without it they can't bring the stone needed to build, with their own hands, the paths we walk on.
Fix the Fells
Repairing and maintaining our ancient network of Lake District mountain paths is an enormous task. Many of the paths have been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Despite their age, these paths need help. The combination of millions of feet and the Lake District's weather means that erosion is a constant problem.
Fix the Fells has repaired over 200 sections of paths in the last ten years. Over the next ten years we aim to repair a further 120 paths, whilst continuing to maintain the existing network.
Our work also helps protect the local ecology and heritage. The Lake District is full of rare plant species that are vulnerable to damage when people walk on them. Preventing erosion reduces the volume of soil going into our rivers and streams and improves the water quality too.
The Lake District
There is so much beauty and rarity in the Lake District which calls out to people to explore it. But access to this free, national park still has a cost; let's not allow that cost to be the beauty and nature itself.
Thank you so much for your support!