Celebrating Kinder Scout with Helen Mort & Sarah Lister - Derby Book Festival

Interview with Helen Mort and Sarah Lister, including questions from the audience and book sales/signings. 

Kinder Scout has iconic status as the heart of our first National Park, the focus of the early fight for access, the start of the Pennine Way, the brooding mass in between major cities and the site of many a walker’s dreams and nightmares.

Poet, novelist and climber Helen Mort’s Ethel: The Biography of Countryside Pioneer Ethel Haythornthwaite; and Mountain Walks Kinder Scout, by Wild About Kinder podcaster and Hill and Moorland Leader, Sarah Lister, reveal the history and hidden delights of Kinder Scout.

Pioneer, activist, environmentalist, poet. Ethel Haythornthwaite is virtually unknown, even in her hometown of Sheffield – the UK’s outdoor city – yet her tireless campaigning led to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and the creation of the Peak District National Park. She helped save the British…