Kendal Mountain Festival

Did you book an ambitious hiking holiday that has been made redundant by lockdown? Try this online festival which will probably pale in comparison to your plans, but has some interesting stuff going on nonetheless. At the online version of Kendal Mountain Festival, you can watch adventure docs with names like ‘Over the Edge’ and ‘Ten Thousand Bolts’ and get tips on open-water swimming from people who have dedicated their lives to freezing outdoor dips. If you prefer adventures that involve reading not doing, there’s free event The Lost Spells, where writers Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris will read to you from their little book of natural spell poems.