These six walks through the Yorkshire Dales and surrounding hills offer a memorable blend of scenery, challenge, and tranquillity. Each route reveals sweeping green valleys, drystone walls threading across the landscape, and horizons that seem to stretch without limit, all accompanied by the distinctive call of the curlew. Some climbs are rocky, rugged, or boggy, but every ascent is rewarded with wide-open skies, a sense of deep solitude, and the satisfaction of standing atop some of England’s most celebrated peaks