Remarkable man, I actually got quiet emotional watching that....I've just started walking the lakes at 44yrs old, such a beautiful place...just ordered his books to help me on my next visit

What a wonderful man. I’m 21 and currently ticking the Wainwrights off. I am local to the area so I don’t want to take the Lakes for granted. This was a lovely documentary about him, such an interesting and inspiring person. 🤎

Now living in Spain but have frequently walked in the Lake District using Wainwright's amazing guides. I bought all of them primarily for the pen and ink drawings and his ability to express form and texture, landscape and buildings, using simple pen and ink. They are absolute masterpieces, each of them, and could, if necessary, stand on their own as works of art in their own right. The text, the immaculate spacing, the lettering, the whole design of each and every page is a lasting monument to precision, style, fine artistic ability, patience and an unswerving determination to produce a unique piece of work. Thankyou Wainwright.

I did the Coast to Coast Walk when I was 18 years old. It changed my life for the better. Thanks Alfred Wainwright!

Was on Haystacks for the second time yesterday . It’s magical looking towards Buttermere and Crummock water standing on the shoulders of a Lake District giant AW. Walked down to warnscale Bothy and looked through its iconic picturesque window . Brilliant walk starting off at Honister and dropping down below Fleetwith Pike. I moved to Kendal a month ago and can walk to the town hall in 3 minutes. A couple of years ago I had a tour in there where his office was. In wetherspoons around the corner the walls have wainwright pictures up , a couple that you see in this documentary

Until this week I had never heard of Wainwright. We took a family holiday to the lakes and discovered him when we climbed our first Wainwright - Gowbarrow. How wonderful to come across this documentary. The struggles in climbing the fells are such a metaphor for life.

If you understand AWs thoughts you will appreciate the Lakes and every other natural beauty we have in our magical British Isles. If you are struck by its spell I am sure will stay with you!

Sheer perfection. No idea how many times I've watched this. Many times. Am now going to watch again. One of the very greatest of men. Thank you for posting.

Lake district is a true national treasure, a truly special place

just bought the books.i can relate to everything about mr wainwright. if i was a director id make this into a film.

A wonderfully work driven talented man. A pleasure to see and hear about him again. We need more people like him. Thank you I have enjoyed this.

Thoroughly enjoyed this very entertaining documentary not only for the Great Alfred Wainwright.But for the lake district national park both very interesting subjects . Great Documentary Thanks

Remarkable person, remarkable story, remarkable achievement.

Thanks Garry for this, I did the A W's Coast to Coast Walk a few years ago now, plus some of the fells and found his guidebook invaluable. What a love and dedication of the Lakeland Fells he had.

Thank you for uploading this. Really enjoyed watching. 👍🏻

One of the most beautiful places in England. I have had the pleasure to walk alone there many years ago. I climbed to the top of Scarfel Pike and wild camped there many years ago. Once i reached the top wow what a beautiful sight. The lakes just was so beautiful as i looked down on them. I have not got any of the Wainwright books so i must look out for them. I also walked to the top of Kirkstone Pass 1500ft this also has beautiful views from the top a nice bar with good food is there so plenty to drink and eat before i descended down with the sheep in the field following me on my way.. Regards Mick....

To the adage" It's never too late!" is true, I just found AW. and through a man calling himself The Wiltshire Man. I made the journey with him thru the lake region in his 3 part Video Wainwright coast to coast. 10 days and 192 miles of beauty, and at each appropriate moment he applauds and makes note of Alfred. And the joy he's gotten from his books, and guides. so now I too can look at my beautiful Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, with another eye of two men. and relish what they both have given us. Thank you both for your love of country and hills and man.

I have been to the Lake District 3 times so far. But this film is absolutely beautiful. The music is spectacular as is the scenery. Thank you for uploading this it is breath taking to watch. This film show's us how beautiful the Lake District really is. I have thoroughly enjoyed this film. It has inspired me to try and do something different. PC. 17. 08. 2023.

Love The Lakes, been there many times! my favourite town is Keswick and favourite lake is Derwent Water.

Watched during Pandemic Lockdown this cheered me up no end really missing getting out on the hills, I’ll have to wait a While though!

This was really wonderful to watch ❤

Brilliant watch, definitely will buy the books now 👍

Thank you for uploading this - what a great documentary.

'The Wainwright''s' are a term as much used as 'The Lake District Mountains'. What a memorial to the man.

Magical story that I have watched several times before - dramatised of course but lays clear the sometimes obtuse, difficult, socially challenged, but accurate, single minded, driven and devoted man Wainwright became. A man of such juxtaposed difference but his obsession serves us all well as we wander now amongst the Lakeland fells.

I have been reading his books since I was about 5. Lovely film.

Thanks for the upload, so much I didn't know about this fascinating and determined man.

I'm Sure the World Could do with a few More Mr Wainwrights

Splendid stuff

Although I'd done maybe 10 of the Wainwright's before, I started walking them in earnest with my girlfriend at the age of 54. So, like others, the books have changed our lives too.

Well worth spending the time to watch. Thanks for sharing.

Outstanding story and legacy. Watching all those channels on here of hikers , camping out on all the hills he mapped. Some dedication. 🇮🇪🇮🇪

Thanks for this upload. Great to get a deeper insight of the man. ✨

What a truly remarkable perfect English gentleman, hanging on in silent desperation

What a brilliant Man, my hero

Lovely stuff. Thank you.

Very interesting and inspiring! Thanks!

That was great..what a fantastic character 👍

One place I would love to visit

OOh, I have just found this and it's a bit late to watch now. I've subscribed and WILL watch it tomorrow.

many thanks for putting this on,got it on dvd but looked on here for ages and only found short snippets of it,big AW fan,good upload Garry!

Great video, we quote AW on all our Lake District high peak videos as some of the quotes are really inspiring. 😊

What a story #legend

Alfred was 100% an Aspie ❤️

Beautiful books. I adore them. Works of art. They are highly accurate but I’d still recommend for safety to take an OS map and a Silva type compass incase the clag comes down and you need to take a bearing to walk off or to walk to the next point.

I have done 67 of the Wainwrights, then I had a problem with my back, then my knees, so I stopped. I am still not 100% right but I am going to try to complete all 214, fortunately, I started by doing the highest first, but I still have some big ones outstanding. Lets see.

I've done 5 mountains in the Lakes, all 'by Wainwright'.

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Just read his biography- a good difficult man- Asperger of course!

The lake district is a beautiful place although I never walk there on the summer any more because of the huge amount of people, litter and noise pollution, I find the autumn and winter are the best times to truly walk the fells alone.

I have just discovered The Lakes at 36y old. Is is truly a magical place. Can't wait until the next visit and will surely use Alfred's guides to plan my next trip. What is this place at 17:00? Could just sit there and admire this view to no end.

Great documentary. Interesting there was never any mention of his son or their relationship.

King of the Mountains

Thanks for the upload Garry. When did BBC put this out? atb

Poor Ruth!

does anyone know the name of the song at 18:12

I was wondering what Wainwright did during the war. He would have been 32 years old when it started. Can't find any info on his national service record.

I get the impression that AW had some Auistic markers

I had lost my copy of Wainwright’s Coast to Coast so I found a used one on Amazon and bought it. To my dismay what I received was not a Wainwright but a mediocre interpretation of the walk. I promptly returned it much to the annoyance of the seller who told me I had done her wrong. “Sad,” I thought, for she was the one who lacked the knowledge of this man’s great legacy.

I always thought A W was a great philosopher .

A very determined and obsessive man, that's for sure.. but he made a few quid out of the job doing what he loved. But lets not dress this up with fantasy and virtue signals, because the majority of folk who are commenting about him being a kind nice lovely man, well he was far from that.. In fact you would probably have found that he despised most who loved his books, just by the music we may like or the car we drive.. but he still took the money from those folk who bothered to buy his books. He comes across as spiteful and judgemental of other human beings that didn't fit his criteria.. especially children. You can tell by the way his stepdaughter talks about him that she knew exactly what he was.. and his poor son never got a mention hardly.. Old Wainwright once grumbled about Britain being a welfare state.. well it's a good job it was, because he was no father to his son and he spent more money on stray animals than his own son, so its ironic that the welfare state probably fed and clothed Peter.

So, he wrote some books about some mountains and everybody thinks he's a God send... He did all this at the expense of his 1st wife who selflessly gave her best years to an ungrateful ,selfish narcissist that cheated on her.. This man was an a@#hole...

Why wasn't he knighted? Queen too busy for this!