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The explorer digs out his rucksack and heads for Windermere in the Lake District. The National Park attracts 18 million visitors each year, and is now a World Heritage site. Here, Paul finds out why the early tourists thought the Lakes was one of the most dangerous spots in the country. He also plunges into the world of long-distance swimming and helps the staff who run the boats on the lake and meets a Holocaust survivor who was airlifted to Windermere in 1945 as part of a mercy mission involving 300 orphans after the Second World War
More details for The Lakes with Paul Rose, Fri 20, 6:10 am
The explorer heads to Derwentwater and Borrowdale, a region of England susceptible to extreme weather, where he meets some of the locals who have battled against flooding and learned to live with the conditions. Along the way, Paul tells the story of Millican Dalton, the 'Professor of Adventure', who ran his own expeditions in the Lake District more than 70 years ago. He also heads for the summit of Great Gable, one of the Lake's best-known peaks
More details for The Lakes with Paul Rose, Fri 20, 6:35 am
Coniston Water isn't the biggest of Cumbria's lakes - but it's one of the most iconic and the place where Donald Campbell died trying to break the world water speed record. Paul meets Campbell's daughter Gina and crew member Robbie Robinson, who was there on the fateful day in January 1967 when Bluebird somersaulted and crashed on the water. The explorer also enters a Lakeland bike ride with a difference before ending his visit with a spot of rock climbing at Dow Crag before the ascent of one of the area's best known hills, The Old Man of Coniston
More details for The Lakes with Paul Rose, Fri 20, 7:10 am
Remote Eskdale is the next destination in the explorer's trek through the Lake District, enjoying the landscapes and meeting its people. The corner of the western Lakes he focuses on is off the normal tourist track, yet boasts England's highest mountain. However, before making the tough climb to the summit of Scafell Pike, Paul meets the folk who run one of the country's most scenic railways, has a close encounter with a vulture, and gets to grips with the locals in a spot of Cumberland wrestling
More details for The Lakes with Paul Rose, Fri 20, 7:35 am