Sustainable walking in the Lake District and new Fellranger series with Mark Richards and Gill Haigh

With iconic lakes and mountains, the Lake District National Park is one of the UK's most popular tourist destinations and attracts millions of visitors every year. In this episode of highlights from our Cicerone Live event, Cicerone author Mark Richards and Managing Director of Cumbria Tourism Gill Haigh join us to celebrate the new Walking the Lake District Fells ‘Fellranger’ series and discuss sustainable walking in the Lake District. By offering several routes for each Lake District fell and identifying 'fell-friendly routes', the Fellranger series aims to spread footfall across the Cumbrian hills and support the work of charities like Fix the Fells. Mark and Gill offer plenty of expert advice about how tourists can be more sustainable when visiting the Lake District this year, and how to find quieter places to explore in Cumbria. In this episode, Amy also chats to in-house editor Natalie Simpson about her work over the past four years creating the eight new Fellranger guidebooks.Discover more about all eight Walking the Lake District Fells guidebooks and explore the online resources for the series on the Cicerone website: www.cicerone.co.uk/fellranger. Offering multiple routes for 230 different fells, each guidebook focuses on a particular Lake District valley: Borrowdale, Buttermere, Coniston, Keswick, Langdale, Mardale and the Far East, Patterdale, and Wasdale. To hear more from Mark about Cumbrian landscape, culture and heritage, listen to his podcast Countrystride: www.countrystride.co.uk. Search for @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook community group, Cicerone Connect. Please rate and review on Apple Podcasts or email feedback to Hannah and Amy via [email protected]. We hope you enjoy exploring the world with Cicerone.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Footnotes: The Cicerone Podcast is a podcast to inspire you about outdoor travel and activities in the UK and across the world. As specialists in outdoor travel guidebooks for over 50 years, Cicerone Press has published nearly 400 guidebooks to walking, cycling, trekking, mountaineering and running all over the world. The Cicerone team is based in Kendal, near the Lake District, and we look forward to sharing our love of the outdoors with you. Through conversations with our guidebook authors, team members and other outdoor experts, this podcast offers plenty of inspiration and advice about exploring the outdoors. Whether you're an established long distance-trekker or have just rediscovered a love of walking or cycling, listen in to discover your next outdoor adventure.Keep up to date with Footnotes and Cicerone by following @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and visit www.cicerone.co.uk, where you can browse our full range of guidebooks and read over 1000 articles by authors and outdoor experts. Send any feedback or questions to Hannah by emailing [email protected]. We hope you enjoy exploring the world with Cicerone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.