THE search is on for one of the country’s most bizarre and high-level, life-saving jobs.

AS Britain braces itself for the onslaught of winter, a Lake District fell top assessor is needed to record weather conditions on 950-metre Helvellyn.

Running from December to Easter, the role sees a team of two working alternate weeks for Weatherline - the phone and online service helps protect nearly 15 million visitors and locals from conditions that can change rapidly and fatally on the fells.

Find out more on www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/aboutus/jobs.

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