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| Oxen Fell High Cross at the start of the walk |
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| The lane leading to High Oxenfell Farm |
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| The lane is only followed for 300 yards to a point where a recessed gate on the left gives access onto the open fellside |
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| Looking back towards Fairfield from above the gate |
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| Continuing straight on from the gate the path passes a small unnamed tarn |
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| Above the tarn the path rises to join the north-east ridge |
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| Looking back to the Eastern Fells of Helvellyn, Fairfield, Dove Crag and Red Screes |
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| The north-east ridge of Holme Fell |
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| Looking back to Helvellyn from the north-east ridge |
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| Little Langdale from the north-east ridge |
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| Tom Heights across Yewdale |
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| Pike o' Blisco and Bowfell from the north-east ridge |
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| Looking back along the ridge - Red Screes, Thornthwaite Crag, Froswick, Ill Bell and Yoke on the horizon |
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| The path, which is not very clear in parts, winds its way around a series of knolls on the ridge |
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| This lower part of the ridge is being actively managed by the National Trust which has planted a lot of trees and restricted grazing to help the regeneration of the native habitat |
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| Highland cattle on the north-east ridge |
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| The summit of Coniston Old Man appears over the ridge as the path approaches Man Crag |
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| Coniston Water |
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| Wetherlam |
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| Looking back towards Fairfield, Dove Crag and Red Screes in the Eastern Fells |
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| The summit of Holme Fell comes into view as the path meets a stile in an iron fence straddling the ridge |
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| Looking back along the ridge from the stile in the iron fence |
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| Beyond the iron fence the whole character of the ridge changes. The path bears away from the fence descending through heather, past a solitary larch, and winds its way amongst rocky knolls towards Uskdale Gap |
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| Coniston Water |
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| Looking over to the Langdale Pikes |
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| Looking back towards Fairfield |
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| The path passes the solitary larch and climbs a grass rake through the steep crag beyond it |
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| Looking back along the ridge from the grass rake |
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| Looking down to Yew Tree Tarn from the top of the grass rake |
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| Ivy Crag and the summit of Holme Fell from the top of the grass rake |
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| Looking over to the Ill Bell ridge in the Far Eastern Fells |
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| Approaching the cross-ridge path near Uskdale Gap |
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| Uskdale Gap |
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| The Langdale Pikes from Uskdale Gap |
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| The path from Uskdale Gap to Ivy Crag, the summit of Holme Fell is on the right |
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| The Langdale Pikes from the summit of Ivy Crag |
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| Helvellyn and Fairfield from the summit of Ivy Crag |
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| Looking back along the route of ascent over the north-east ridge |
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| The Howgills on the distant horizon from the summit of Ivy Crag |
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| Coniston Water from the summit of Ivy Crag |
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| The Yewdale Fells and Coniston Old Man from the summit of Ivy Crag |
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| The summit of Holme Fell lies across a wide depression |
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| The summit cairn on Holme Fell |
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| Coniston Water from the summit of Holme Fell |
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| Coniston Old Man from the summit of Holme Fell |
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| Wetherlam from the summit of Holme Fell |
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| Tilberthwaite from the summit of Holme Fell |
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| The Langdale Pikes from the summit of Holme Fell |
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| Helvellyn, Fairfield and Dove Crag from the summit of Holme Fell |
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| Red Screes and the Ill Bell ridge from the summit of Holme Fell |
