Lakes Webcams
Updated: Webcams installed to view Scafell, Great Gable and Buckbarrow
A webcam from Wasdale Webhas been installed in the valley with its eye on Scafell Pike in the Lake District to provide live pictures 24 hours a day.
Guy Newbold of the Barn Door mountaineering shop in Wasdale has bought state-of-the-art equipment from America to keep track of views on the summit on the 3,208ft mountain England's highest.
Scafell will be the first mountain in the UK to be viewable through a special hi-tech camera which will provide live pictures around the clock, including at night.
Mr Newbold, who also operates a webcam looking at Great Gable, says that with Ben Nevis and Snowdon already having webcams the new camera will mean that the highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales will all now be covered.
"Like the Great Gable Cam the new Scafell Pike Cam will update with a new picture every 10 minutes," he said.
"But unlike the Great Gable unit the new camera will be able to operate throughout the night as well. A new lens means that as the darkness encroaches the iris will automatically widen to ensure an image.
"Of course if it is pitch black, you will still only see a black picture but if there is any light, or any view to be seen you will see it on the new camera. And as if that isn't enough, the new unit will also be able to zoom in up to six times so the view will change daily.
"As far as I can find, this will be the only mountain cam in the UK which is capable of day and night pictures of high quality, and it will also complete the chain by making all Britain's highest peaks covered with cameras."
He added that the webcam, which will look up the popular Brown Tongue path towards the summit, would help walkers and climbers assess weather conditions before setting out as well as providing beautiful and ever-changing views of the country's loftiest peak.
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