Clapham and Ingleborough Mountain

Clapham is one of the beatiful places that i went for trekking in uk. The unspoilt pretty village of Clapham lies in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. I have always been a great fan of yorkshire dales ever since when i first went to grassington village(about which i will talk later). Clapham is a part of yorkshire dales and provides some stunning sceneries for long walks.

We (srikanth, suresh and myself) started from leeds to clapham village on train somewhere around 9 in the morning. suresh always liked long walks and used to accompany me in most of my trips in uk. srikanth always liked to have his pictures taken :D but jokes apart he is also a nice companion and we travelled to many places in uk like this. It was a nice, sunny , bright day and we couldnt have asked for anything better. particularly for me, as i was looking to shoot some great pictures with my new polariser filter. The train journey was awesome with some excellent green pastures , woods and i started taking pictures from the train itself. Some of them you can see below

It was a bit long journey from leeds and finally we got down at clapham station. As it was a bank holiday there was no bus to the village center and we had to walk to the village from the station. It was around 2.5 miles to the village but the location was so wonderful that we hardly felt anything.

On the way to Village

One of the main reasons we came to this place is the ingleborough cave and the mountain. The cave is a very famous one in uk. Impressive floodlit cave stalactites & stalagmites up to 350 million years old are the main attractions. The cave is about 1 km in length and you have to wear a helmet and torch which are provided. In some places inside the cave, the roof is so low that you have to bend while walking. Some of the pics i took inside the cave are

Once we came out of the cave we proceeded to the ingleborough mountain. It is a famous mountain and called one of the 'three peaks'. Before we climbed to the cave we stopped at a small waterfall in the village

With Srikanth

The guide in the cave was very professional and took us to a good tour around the cave. Once we came out of the cave we proceeded to climb the mountain. Just before the steep ascent to the mountain we came to a place called gaping gill and this is a steep waterfall falling to over 100m on some special days they operate a life to go to the bottom of the waterfall. The surrounds of gaping gill are too good. I took some of the most memorable pictures here.

After this we proceed our journey to the mountain peak. srikanth was tired at this point and started going back to the village. even though i was also tired i wanted to go a bit further with suresh to take come pictures from the top so we two continued. after almost reaching the top where there was a very steep climb, i stopped and settled at a spot for taking pictures while suresh who was determined to the very top continued. I started experiementing with my new filter and took some beautiful pictures here.

After sometime we started our descent and met srikanth at the village.
At the end of the day we were completely tired with no energy left in our bodies. That day we walked for something like 18km in total. Walked back to the station got a train and had a good rest in leeds. It was one of the best places i went in Uk. So that ends the Clapham trip. So join me for my next journey :)))