As reported down the UKClimbing.com forums (click here) by johnstan
(profile), the Lake District is to get a Via Ferrata at the Honister Slate Mine at Borrowdale, with the opening scheduled for May during the first Keswick Mountain Festival. The Honister Via Ferrata will follow a Victorian miners' route along the face of Fleetwith Pike before topping out on the 2,126ft summit.
Full report at: cumberland-news.co.uk and honister.com
A little early for April Fools wind-ups ? OK I can see them putting up a bridge across a slate quarry, but surely they aren't planning a protected scramble all the way up Fleetwith Pike - it wouldn't last a week before it gets chopped
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