Helvellyn via Striding Edge - An Epic Knife Edge Ridge Hike in the Lake District!
Hi everyone! In this video we are climbing Helvellyn via Striding Edge which is an epic knife edge ridge hike in the Lake District, England! Helvellyn is the third highest point in the Lake District and in England, standing at 950m above sea level, and is a very popular mountain due to the number of different approaches you can take to get to the top!
For our video we focus on the ascent via Striding Edge which is perhaps the most spectacular way to the top. The route is a Grade 1 scramble so requires the use of your hands in places and should only be attempted in good weather conditions unless you are an experienced hiker. This route can be combined with a descent down Swirral Edge on the adjacent side of the mountain for a brilliant circular walk!
However, there are many easier routes up Helvellyn and we also provide details for some of those routes in this video for you.
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00:00 Intro
00:55 Welcome to the Lake District!
01:44 Ascent to Striding Edge
03:49 The Different Routes up Helvellyn
04:49 Striding Edge!
06:29 Helvellyn Summit + Plane Landing?!
07:40 Descent via Swirral Edge back to Glenridding
09:52 Outro
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Great video guys! Thanks for sharing, this route is now on my "to do" list!
Thanks for watching! Hope you get to tick it off the list soon! :)
Going there for the first time on June! Very excited! Thanks for the tips!
Your welcome! 😊 have a great climb in June! Fingers crossed you get good weather 🤞
Great videos. Well explained. Thank you. Be careful!
Thanks Nick! Haha we always try to be 👍
Wonderful and informative video. Thank you!
Thank you so much! 😊
Beautiful video! Thank you for sharing this. I wish I was as brave as you both. I can enjoy the views from the safety of my home 😊
Thank you! 😊 glad we can help you enjoy this beautiful mountain without climbing it 😊
I did this exact same walk many years ago in atrocious weather. It rained the whole day. I love your content. Always learn something new, and your enthusiam is contagious. Keep up the excellent work.
Thanks so much Dominic! 😊 so sorry you had rubbish weather when you went on this walk! Hopefully you can get up Helvellyn again soon with good weather and can appreciate how beautiful the views are for yourself 😊👍
Wow so cool that you can walk on the narrow ridge of the mountains and see far for miles around The lake down and the river down below are both stunning! I can see why this is a very popular hike. Well done.
We have fallen in love with ridge hikes like this one recently! On a clear day there is just nothing better 😊😍 thanks for watching! 👍
Great video guys! I'm visiting the Lake District in a few weeks and going to give Helvellyn a go!
Thank you! 😊 have a great time in the Lakes and good luck with Helvellyn! 💪
Wow.. Amazing views 😍 Thanks for sharing such a beautiful place! Enjoyed watching 🤩 Stay connected
Thank you so much! 😊 the views truly are incredible! 😍
You have very well made videos mate. Don’t stop! They’re great.
Thanks a lot George! Means a lot 🙏 glad you are enjoying them! We enjoy making them and definitely don't intend to stop! 😊
Amazing Helvellyn 💚💚🙏
It certainly is 😊⛰
Great video! Incredible drone shots. We did this climb last year and made a video about it. Your video has shown that we definitely need a drone! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks guys! 👍 it definitely helps to add a different perspective! It's an amazing hike...will make sure to check out your video 😊
Well done 👏
Thanks 😊👍
Great vlog as always.
Thanks a lot Marc 👍
Excelente video! Gran entusiasmo. Se nota que disfrutan mucho. Gracias por las imágenes. Yo tengo también la olympus om-d e-m10 mark iv y el dji mini 2. Excellent work. Keep doing those beautiful videos. Greetings from Venezuela
Gracias Jorge! Wow it blows our minds that you are watching are videos from Venezuela!! The Olympus and the DJI Mini are great aren't they? Thanks so much for watching! Maybe we'll have a chance to visit and film in South America one day 😊
@@KittiandJon You guys are welcome to come here anytime you want. You have a house here! We would be happy to have you...
Nice hike. You have a wonderful upcoming week.
Thanks so much! 👍
love it
Thank you! 😊🙏
Great stuff! brought here from the suggested videos at the end of the Outside Your Zone video on Striding Edge.
Thanks Jeremy! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for checking out our channel 😊
Great video you have inspired me to go here thanks
Thank you! You won’t regret it 😊
Wow. Another great video. Love the drone footage. The view up top is incredible 😍. Great work again. Thanks for sharing new subscriber here 😀
Thanks so much guys! 😊 the views from up there are epic...you can see for miles in so many directions! Thanks for the sub! Heading over to check out your channel now 😊
Doing this on saturday... looking forward too it
Hope you have a great walk and great weather 😊👍 thanks for watching!
Beautiful video guys, well done. I'll be certain to have a look at your other videos as well, so here's another subscriber. I really enjoy watching these hiking videos from all sorts of different people, but the more I've seen the more my feet start itching to head off to the Lake District as well. 😀My fear though is that the journey to and from there will be much more challenging than the actual hiking and scrambling...
Thank you 😊 we really appreciate it 🙏 haha we are the same! If we are away from nature too long our feet definitely start to itch! Hopefully you can make that journey soon and explore the Lakes 😊
@@KittiandJon Can't be soon enough if you ask me. Visiting the Lake District has been a dream of mine for years. Never got around to actually doing it for various reasons. Coming from mainland Europe it's not exactly a short trip either, and for me to be able to do this alone, a few different mountains have to be conquered first... Ones of the mental variety, lets say. Hehe. 🙄 But I remain hopeful and those mountains aren't going anywhere in the next few million years. Meanwhile I'm thankful there's a lot of people like yourselves and others who share their adventures. It's a pleasure to watch and also works as a sort of mental preparation if you know what i mean. Anyway, hope you guys have many more joyous adventures. Keep those legs going! 😎 ---- Almost forgot to react to the first bit of your message. Can you imagine so many people living 90% of their lives in cramped cities who then spend their vacation on a cramped beach or on an overcrowded campsite? No wonder there's so much stress and other mental illness in modern times. People don't connect with nature the way they used to, and that's a shame.
@@Audioslaaf we 100% agree! Nature is one of life's best medicines :) fingers crossed for your journey and that it will happen one day...you will be all the more ready for it when the time comes :)
I' ve been up there some 20 years ago. The weather was lovely, but I didn't dare to cross the ridge. Panicked a bit and went back, even though it is not really dangerous for experienced hikers. A pity, it looks gorgeous up there!!
Thanks for watching! 😊 on a nice day the views from the top are really something! 😊
Good video guys .
Thank you 😊
Nice video and a great channel too
Thank you 😊
@@KittiandJon I need a recent striding edge video now
I did this yesterday, and wow....completely different experience in Winter! haha. Crampons, Ice Axe etc is needed.
Haha yes it's a whole different ball game in winter! Imagine the landscape looks pretty epic under the snow and ice though! ❄
There’s been a spate of deaths on striding edge lately, and I don’t feel like people give it the respect it deserves. The dangers of these routes should be made a lot clearer when doing these types of videos, as by masking it or glossing over them, you are potentially encouraging people to go out unprepared ,and to experience conditions that are out of their depth.
Nice...
Thanks 😊🙏
@@KittiandJon you're welcome 😊
Great video, defo keen on visiting the Peak District next year after watching this video 😁 What Osprey rucksack is Kitti wearing please? My partner loves the look of it
Thanks Aiden! :) Kitti's rucksack is actually the 13L detachable one from the Osprey Fairview 70L rucksack. I think they also do a 9L and 18L daysack which look similar to the one Kitti has. We got ours from Blacks :) hope that helps!
@@KittiandJon brill, thanks for getting back to me, will look at the rucksack & also the Crib Goch video soon, it's an epic climb isn't it 😁
@@aidenclarke1983 no problem! We absolutely loved Crib Goch and we got so so lucky with the weather! Hope you enjoy the vid 😊
Love the video have you a link or the name of the walk on AllTrails? Thank you!
Thank you! Here's the link to our trail: www.alltrails.com/explore/map/map-jun-26-07-18-pm-22722a3
Fantastic video! What time of year was this?
Thanks Lee! We did it in late June and had pretty good conditions 😊
What month did you do this walk?
We did it in June 👍
First time I went up striding edge I was 15 at school we were about 50m from the summit and about 8 pupils started crying, I couldn't understand, they were crying because they couldn't breathe we encourage them to the the top and I was really feeling chuffed with my self until I saw a 10 year old kid stood there with his family dressed in trunks flippers mask and snorkel, they had just walked up from ullswater lake 😂👍😎
😂 sounds about right! You do see all sorts up there! Plenty of easier routes to the summit than Striding Edge. Thanks for watching! 😊
I always take my dogs with me, this looks a bit dangerous for them. Whats it like in person? Would you choose a different route
For the most part they would be fine but there are a couple of small sections as you get towards the summit that might be a bit tricky for them. Trying to think back to when we did it to remember if we saw any dogs but honestly can’t remember! Would definitely advise caution though.
Is the route really clear and easy to follow without a map? (I’ll still have my map with me!)
Yes it’s pretty hard to go wrong even without a map. Follow one ridge up and the other one down 👍 always best to have a map just in case though 😊
Hi, curious to know how many hours it took to reach the top and back down to Glenridding.
I would say it took us about 6-8 hours to do the full circle although my memory is a little fuzzy now as it has been a while! We did stop to film a lot and took about 30 mins on the top for lunch so you could probably do it in less time than that 😊
@@KittiandJon thank you very much
Have you done Mount Everest? - by Grace! Phil’S fav daughter 🏃♀️🗻
Hi Grace! 👋 no we haven't done Mount Everest (yet!) We would love to do the trek to Everest Base Camp but I don't think we will ever be brave enough to go all the way to the summit! 😊 thanks for watching our video👍🙏
Climbing my first mountain on the weekend, that being helvellyn and thinking off doing striding edge but I'm very nervous I won't have the courage or I may fall is this normal
Of course! Helvellyn is a fantastic first mountain to climb! If you want to do striding edge just be aware that there are a couple of scrambling sections which could definitely be nerve-wracking if you are a bit nervous already. For the most part the path up is very good but we would say there are 2 points closer to the top which are a little more technical and require hands and feet to climb. If this is your first mountain climb and you're a little nervous then we might suggest doing an easier route up or potentially a different mountain ⛰️ Scafell Pike would be a great first climb too as the path up is much less technical and the views just as amazing 👍
@@KittiandJon thank you
Debating on taking my kids on this walk - is it 13km round trip or just one way?
It's a 13km round trip 😊 when we did the walk we saw lots of families on the trail👍
@@KittiandJon amazing, thank you x
How long did it take you?
It took us about 7 hours but we stopped to film a lot so you could definitely do it faster than that 👍
Wilson (Newcastle)
How hard was striding edge? I’m thinking of going next week, but my fitness is terrible. I’ve climbed Ben Venue and Ben A’an in Scotland. But that was almost a year ago. So any advice?
Hi Benjamin 👋 we would definitely suggest a moderate level of fitness for Striding Edge. Most of the trail up is steep to gradual in places but fairly long and then once you are on the ridge it isn't too bad. The last stretch to the top is a little technical and requires some scrambling though. Hope that helps!
Can you camp in the mountains ?
It is unfortunately illegal to wild camp in England and Wales unless you get the land owners permission. We still see plenty of people doing it though!
Hiking or approach boots.
We wore hiking boots but saw plenty of people ascending in trainers and doing just fine so wouldn't say it matters too much 👍