WALKING
“I GET A THRILL OUT OF INSPIRING PEOPLE ON A MONDAY MORNING.”
end of the month. I get a bit of money from crowdfunding and sponsorship and money from the BMC has helped, that all contributed to making sure my bills are paid. But I have to be very, very careful with the pennies all the time. “But I’ve enjoyed sharing the journey I’m on from the beginning to where I am now. I get a thrill out of inspiring people on a Monday morning and they’re sat at their desk or in the factory and they see a picture from me on the top of Scafell Pike and there’s a temperature inversion and the sun’s coming up. That’s where this niche or brand comes in to it, as you say.” Terry’s describes his vision for ‘Scafell Pike’ as “an all-encompassing document of this mountain and the surrounding area over the course of a year.” Through appearances from shepherdess Alison O’ Neill, history lessons from local personality David Powell-Thompson and footage of tweed-clad farmers at the annual Wasdale Show, it stresses that the Lake District is a cultural and working
landscape, not simply a natural one. Yours truly appears on behalf of the BMC to talk about funding provided through the BMC’s Access and Conservation Trust to repair eroded paths on the Scafell massif, warn of the negative impact of challenge events, and gawp at a cloud inversion. ‘Scafell Pike’ is a more polished fi lm than the ‘The
Cairngorms in Winter’, which despite being an impressive fi lm in itself, Terry now views as almost a dry-run. “The end goal always was the Scafell fi lm, to be frank,” he says. “It’s been the brainchild of mine for the last four years, and I was just waiting for that moment in life where was fi nancially secure enough to take the risk and go for it.” The fi lm takes a broad defi nition of Scafell Pike, encompassing the Scafell massif in general and focusing in particular on the life of its adjacent valley, Wasdale. Terry believes Scafell Pike and Wasdale go together “like sausage and mash,” but he also attempts to show the mountain as a multi-faceted beast, approachable via different angles
34 | 70TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR | FOR BRITISH CLIMBING AND WALKING SINCE 1944
Carey Davies is the BMC hill walking development offi cer. Contact him @BMC_Walk.
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