Great Dun Fell, Cumbria (11. Pennine Way/Tarmac road junction)

 However he did experience it enough to be able to say this about it during a radio interview he gave in February 1939. “There are many places in the world which are known on account of their characteristic local winds. By ‘local winds’ we may understand, winds of considerable strength which are confined to a small area of country, outside which they’re not felt [...] We have, however, a single example in Britain of a more violent local phenomenon, the ‘Helm Wind’ of Cumberland and Westmorland... Given the right sort of east or north-east current, the wind rushes over and down the ‘step’ with exceptional violence. Villages and farms at the foot of the hill – places like Knock and Milburn, Dufton and Blencarn, Hilton, Murton, Skirwith, Ousby and Melmerby, find themselves in a “roaring north-easter”, blowing straight down from the fellside in a quite unforgettable way... To walk up the fellside against it is an unforgettable experience, and, while I don’t object to wind, I don’t recommend going up in a ‘helm’ for pleasure. One stoops against it with everything buttoned up as tight as it can be, and slogs wearily up the hill with this steady roaring torrent of air pressing against one, sometimes at fifty or sixty miles per hour, even on a “fine day”... It is very tiring, and if there is snow about it causes severe drifting. Further, east winds being what they are, it is bitterly cold. On the morning of the First of May, on the summit, it blew a gale from North-East with a temperature of only twenty-nine degrees at my hut.” Directions to stop 12 Continue to follow the Pennine Way along the road and then along a path, keeping to the right. Stop when you reach the radar station at the summit of Great Dun Fell.