A POPULAR festival which attracts thousands of people from across the country has announced its return after going virtual last year.

After last year’s digital-only event, Kendal Mountain Festival bis set to return this November with a full live programme which organisers have said will ‘blow your socks off’.

The festival offers something for everyone, whether you are into clawing your way up mountains, sliding down them, jumping off the top - or just watching others do it and organisers have promised the strongest festival line-up to date with must-see speakers, films, and events, plus a new Basecamp village featuring multiple free stages and an expanded food and drink offering.

And all events on the main festival stages will be available to view online, along with the entire film programme, through the festival’s new Kendal Mountain Player where people can also catch up on last year’s stage events, plus new content being added throughout the year.

Running for over 40 years, the Kendal Mountain team works each year to a different theme and this year sees film, speaker events, literature, art, and dance coming together around the theme of ‘movement’ in the great outdoors.

Artistic director Claire Carter said: “At Kendal this year we celebrate movement, and our programme of events is being curated around this theme.

“The physical potential of our bodies, the evolution of our environment, and all the communities that shift individuals and create change through the great outdoors.

“Whether you race, glide, crimp, paddle, carve, ride, wheel, pace or blast… you create movement. “Let’s join together at Kendal, to move, to shift our mindset, to take up new endeavours, to connect.”

The festival will run from November 18 to 21 and tickets go on sale in early September, for more info head to the Kendal Mountain Festival website.