Last week OFC correspondent Mark Richards participated in a small sojourn at Sam Read's bookshop in Grasmere to coincide with the official unveiling of the new Lakeland Pathfinder bus, and to promote his recently published Great Mountain Days in the Lake District.

Starting with Great Mountain Days in the Lake District, publishers Cicerone will be contributing a proportion of the book's profits to Fix the Fells, an organisation working with amongst others, the Lake District National Park Authority, The National Trust and Natural England to help repair, restore and rebuild eroded paths.

This initiative by Cicerone is fantastic. Fix the Fells can restore the Lakeland landscape from the impact of millions of fell goers - but only with funding and publicity. Cicerone is helping with both.
Richard Fox, Fix the Fells Project Officer

The Lakeland Fellranger series of titles being re-launched in September are also destined to help in the same way, thus helping to offset at least some of the harm done by many passing feet.

Are Cicerone the first publishers to make such a commitment?  Maybe, maybe not... but let's hope that their example is followed by other publishers looking to put something back into fellwalking.