Wild Camping in the Lake District 🏕 _ My First Time!

Hello there. So normally before I start my videos, I like to check my makeup, touch up my lipstick. Today we're doing none of that because we're on top of a mountain. So you might recall that about three weeks ago I went on my first solo camping adventure and things didn't go very well. I.e. the entire thing was a bit of a fail, but today I'm trying again. We are in the beautiful Lake District and I'm going not only camping, but I'm going wild camping. So in the middle of nowhere pitching a tent on top of a mountain and I'm hoping this time we will succeed because I'm going with a bit of help. I've got a bit of backup this time. I'm going with Mahmood Mountain School. Mahmood Mountain School is based in Kendal in the Lake District and it offers various mountaineering courses and outdoor instructors. My friends Helen, Vicky and I did the level one private guiding course. You don't need any previous experience for these and prices currently start at £230 for a group of four. They can even lend you some equipment including clothing, portable stoves and tents. I've got all the equipment I need once again on my back, but this time I've got high hopes. I've got high hopes and right behind us is Vicky. She's approaching us. I've got Vicky and Helen. You can check them out right here. These are their handles. Our hike took us close to the Lake District's Helvellyn range offering some pretty incredible views of the mountains and the central fells as you can see. There was one steep climb which we'll get to later. But generally speaking, this is a very beginner-friendly route with a gentle ascent up to Hard Crag. Vicky's surrounded by sheep like she's hidey or something. This is such a steep hill with this much stuff on your back, but it's really nice. It feels so good to be outdoors. Positively exhilarating! Excuse the heavy breathing. Our guides, Dougie and Emma, didn't just show us the way. They also taught us some basic map reading and compass skills. These were pretty hard to master as you can probably tell by my face here, but they're an invaluable skill for any hiker, especially if you like going solo. I know that Lord of the Rings was filmed in New Zealand, but doesn't this look like Middle-earth to you? Doesn't this look like Mordor? Not really, but it was very cool. It's really, really beautiful. This was the hardest bit. Scramble to the top. Dougie got this water from the stream over there. We're now filling it into our bottles. This is so incredibly peaceful. Can you see the lake in the distance? Let me show you. That's my favorite thing about hiking. Not the views, although they're obviously part of the appeal. It's about overcoming the stroppy voice inside your head, telling you to give up when things get hard. The small victories, those mountains you conquer, they're why I hike. Yes! We made it! All right, we've arrived to our wild camping spot. We're just setting up the tents. Yes, I am helping. I just wanted to, you know, do a bit of reporting, slack off a bit. I had brought my own tent on this trip. You can see all the equipment I use in my video called Solo Camping for the First Time, which I am linking above. But, Mammut Mountain School had this amazing Hilleberg tent that could sleep all three of us, which is much better for wild camping. The fewer tents, the better, because you want to be as inconspicuous as possible. Okay, I'm gonna go inside the tent now. To do the rest of it. So, unfortunately, I'm being walled in to the tent. I'm having fun. Having fun. Okay, goodbye! All right, I'm gonna check out my crib. These are inflatable mats, and now we're just gonna put down some sleeping bags. You know, there's a little stream, and this behind me is a little heart-shaped lake, which is absolutely adorable. But yeah, this is gonna be our tent for the night. As a rule, you never cook inside a tent. You always want to be two meters away from the tent. If your tent catches fire, that's it. That's your shelter gone. So, that's on, that's lit. You can see it now starting to warm up. Oh yeah, it's so hard to see the flame. Now you can just stick that on the top. So, we're boiling some water on these tiny little stoves. And we're gonna hold it at all times, otherwise it falls over and kills someone. Okay, Sabina, so how is your delicious wilderness stew with rice? It doesn't look super appetizing. But it's almost got that, like, soupy taste. You know when you have, um, like, pot noodles? It's nice, yeah? This is some Speyside whiskey that Dougie has brought up in a hip flask. And I'm, like, having the time of my life here. This is how we dispense the water. Ooh! Look at this! Breakfast time! We're having another boil-in-the-bag meal. This time it is oat porridge with chocolate and banana. We've done as much as we can to cause this little change in this bit of environment. And it's really important that we follow that kind of rule, because it is, it is fragile. See, even things like teabags. If you think, oh, it's only a teabag, it'll break down and it'll disappear. And yes, the tea inside it will. But most teabags are made with synthetics. So even if the teabag breaks down, you're still introducing some microplastics to the environment. Okay, once again, I'm not helping but filming. We're taking the tent down, but I am gonna pitch in. Pitch in! What a thot might do is get the three of you to navigate him off the hillside. She's running. She's set a camera up. He looks like... I know you probably can't hear me, but look at this. Look at it. Now I'm gonna take my socks off and put my feet in. If you think this water looks nice and refreshing, odds are you're really gonna enjoy my wild swimming video, which I recorded on the same trip to the Lake District. I've linked it above in case you want to check it out. The spot is called the Fairy Glen, and as you can see, it's pretty magical. That's it. That is my shameless plug. Little quiz for you guys. Helen, if you will. What do you guys think this is for? Pause the video, think about it, drop a comment below, and... Pause now. Okay, so. Helen, what's the answer? Because you've been carrying it in your backpack this whole time. Yeah, it's clean though, so that might give you a little clue as to what it is. It's for shoveling... Well, actually, it's for digging a hole so that you can poo in it. Yeah, so that is how you... Sorry, I touched you with it. That is how you poo on mountaintops so that you leave no trace. I know we're making light of the situation, but this is very serious. When you go wild camping, you need to clean up after yourself completely because this is a living landscape, and people want to walk around here, people want to drink from the rivers, and they don't want them to be filled with your fecal matter. And that's all I'm going to say on that. But yeah, you dig a trench, you poo in it, you put earth back in, you're done. Okay, the trek is over. We've just sat down at the pub. Well done, everyone. Yeah, earned this. Thank you very much. Oh my God, that tastes so... It's got a little bit of salt. So that was my first ever wild camping experience, and it's going to be pretty hard to top. Check out Moomoo Mountain School if you'd like to do a hike with them like I did, and see you next Friday in a new video. Thanks for watching.