The last in our summer series on UK active breaks takes in a Hartland Point hike and a daunting climb on Lundy
• The Lakes | Anglesey | Northumberland
Adventure may be created by taking risks, or it can be brought on by the unexpected. Like when you book four days on the island of Lundy, 11 miles off the coast of north Devon in the Bristol Channel, and hare down there in time for the ferry, only to be told: “It’s cancelled. High winds.”
We didn’t have a back-up plan, let alone camping equipment. I had been focused on two things: snorkelling in Britain’s first marine protected area (established in the 1980s), then climbing one of the country’s all-time great routes, the Devil’s Slide. It features in Ken Wilson’s book Classic Rock, having first been conquered in 1961 by Rear Admiral Keith Lawder. The pictures show a vast slab of granite rising obliquely from the waves and heading skywards with a rather nasty-looking upward curve at the finish. Continue reading...
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