Lake District Winter Walks, High Rigg

"For romantic novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott it was a massive fortress which was at the heart of his epic poem,The Bridal of Triermain. For news reporters in 1939 it was 'The Lakeland Everest' which was 'conquered' when local climbing hero, Jim Birkett and his team made the first climbing ascent of its intimidating north face." This picture was taken in February 2004, but in 2011..."Now the imposing Castle Rock of Triermain, which has magnetically drawn visitors to the Lake District for centuries, looks likely to suffer a serious disfigurement of its impressive northern facade, as a crack on the face - which was first reported in 2011 - has reportedly widened to the extent that some are predicting the approaching winter freeze will finally prize a massive shield of rock from the face." www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/oct/04/lakedistrict-mountaineering-castle-rock-of-trierman-walter-scott