This week's Friday Night Video is a touching feature-length documentary film about Maryport-born miner, rock climber and artist Bill Peascod (1920-1985).

The film — hosted by the Mountain Heritage Trust — follows Bill's life from a challenging childhood in the Cumberland coalfields and involvement in the mines rescue teams at Lowca and William Pit disasters to his pioneering of new routes in Buttermere in the 1940s.

Bill became an abstract landscape painter after emigrating to Australia in 1952, where he developed 'burnt' paintings. He returned to Cumbria in 1980 and drew on Japanese influences to paint his beloved fells, where he had returned to climbing with friends such as Bill Birkett, Sir Chris Bonington and Don Whillans.