 England's Lake District is one of the most stunning places in the world with rolling hills, incredible mountains and picturesque lakes. After a long journey from London to Penrith and then to the city of Keswick, it's time for a unique winter adventure. It is 7.24 am here in Keswick and the sunrise is actually not until 8.25 am. I'm still in my hostel, all packed, almost ready so here's the plan for the day. I have to make myself some breakfast before I head out, I leave my hostel, I have about 18 to 20 minutes walk to get to the meeting point where I'm meeting Sam and then we drive about 20 to 25 minutes to get to the trailhead and start our adventure for the day which is climbing England's highest peak, Scaffell Pike. It's pretty cold, I'm meeting my guide out here in about 50 minutes so I'm gonna go get myself some warm tea the English way. So we're heading up Scaffell Pike, so it's the highest mountain in England and we just stopped here just to put some microspikes on because we've got really icy ground today but we've got perfect weather so yeah hoping for a good journey. I was telling Sam earlier that I'm really surprised at how many ice there is on the ground even though we're not really at high elevations. Yeah at the moment we're sort of only, we're probably just less than a thousand feet and the highest point is about 3000 so yeah it's not particularly high but we've just got really really cold weather sort of big northerly flow coming down at the moment so everything's iced up, we've got perfect winter conditions. And the views are just so incredible all over the valley here it's really beautiful. Wow look at how much ice there is. This is incredible. This is becoming more and more fun. I do however need to pay more attention. Yeah absolutely beautiful and I think by now we've been hiking for about maybe three hours if it's 12 already. A little bit slow with these big boots but oh my gosh the rocks up here all covered in snow is just a view out of this world. So we're still waking our way up to the summit. We just walked down a bouldering field right there it was really a fun scramble and then we're climbing up right there. So we're getting closer. It's really nice that when we're climbing up you're just working hard enough to keep yourself formed but it's cold still but these views are just so incredible. All right let's get going. It's right there. Super close. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, those views. And we made it up to Scaffold Pike. The views are incredible and the sand did an incredible job, guiding me all the way up here. Oh my gosh this feels so good especially with the sun out giving us all that warmth but we're just gonna probably snap some more photos up here. Little snack, water and then we'll decide which way we are taking to get down. Let's do it. It feels funny. So we're making our way down and it's not as cold actually which I'm very happy with but it's so tricky in some sections. There's a lot of ice which I was sort of surprised because going up it wasn't much of a problem but going down you really have to be so focused but it's still fun. Good practice to learn about how to use these micro spikes properly but other than that the views in front of me of the valley they're just so epic. Look at that. Beautiful. We're done with the micro spikes. I saw a lady yesterday in the city wearing a pair just walking and I looked at her and I thought to myself you know this is reasonable because these roads are pretty slippery. All good. I think my absolute favorite thing about this hike are all the sheep. They are so and they're not shy at all. There's one on the trail. Oh no anymore. Oh he's doing business. We are almost to the car. The sun goes down pretty early here I think around 4.50 or 4.30 so it's also getting pretty cold but today was an incredible day. What a beautiful hike. Very very pleased with it. Thank you Sam.