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| The National Trust car park on the outskirts of Buttermere is the starting point for this walk |
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| A double-headed footpath sign indicates the start of the path over the brow of High House Crag and the main track to the valley of Sail Beck |
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| Shortly after passing behind the cottages of Crag Houses a gate gives access to the open fellside |
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| Looking back to High Crag and High Stile |
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| Sunlight highlights the Knott Rigg ~ Ard Crags ridge above Newlands Hause |
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| The Sail Beck path is only followed for a quarter of a mile before we turn off it to join the High House Crag path |
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| Looking over to Mellbreak from the High House Crag path |
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| Looking back to Buttermere, Green Gable and Great Gable appear over the summit ridge of Haystacks on the left |
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| The summit of Whiteless Pike appears the left above Low bank. The path leads up to a col on Low Bank which overlooks the head of Squat Beck |
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| Looking back to High Stile and Red Pike |
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| Looking across to High Snockrigg |
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| Crummock Water from the slopes of Low Bank |
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| Crummock Water and Loweswater from the col at the head of Squat Beck |
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| Looking back to High Crag above Buttermere |
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| Robinson across the slopes of High Snockrigg from the col |
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| The ascent continues from the col on a steep path which zig-zags up the steep slope of Whiteless Breast |
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| Looking back from the slopes of Whiteless Breast. Great Gable and Kirk Fell above Haystacks in the centre, with High Crag and the steep north-east ridge of High Stile above Buttermere on the right |
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| Looking over to Newlands Hause and Robinson from the slopes of Whiteless Breast |
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| Looking back to High Stile and Red Pike from the slopes of Whiteless Breast |
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| Crummock Water and Loweswater from the slopes of Whiteless Breast |
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| The path makes a rising traverse over to the western side of Whiteless Breast high above Rannerdale |
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| Whiteless Pike and Wandope from the path above Rannerdale |
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| Looking down to Rannerdale |
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| Whiteless Pike, Thirdgill Head Man and Wandope |
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| Looking back over Low Bank to Crummock Water with Starling Dodd and Great Borne on the horizon |
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| Approaching the col between Whiteless Breast and Whiteless Pike |
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| The valley of Sail Beck from the col |
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| Looking over to Newlands Hause and Robinson from the lower slopes of Whiteless Pike |
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| Looking back to Buttermere from the lower slopes of Whiteless Pike |
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| The Helvellyn range apears in the distance over the Maiden Moor ~ High Spy ridge |
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| Halfway up the south ridge the first of a series of rock bands is encountered, this one is easily climbed on a stone-pitched path |
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| Looking over to Red Pike, Starling Dodd and Great Borne |
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| Looking over to Thirdgill Head Man, Wandope and Sail |
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| The valley of Sail Beck |
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| Traversing across the upper rock band |
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| Crummock Water from the upper rock band |
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| The easier upper slopes above the rock bands |
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| Looking back to the Scafell range on the horizon |
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| Looking back to Buttermere from the upper slopes |
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| Starling Dodd and Great Borne |
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| Grasmoor comes into view as we near the top of Whiteless Pike |
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| The summit of Whiteless Pike |
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| Great Borne at the head of the Mosedale Valley |
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| Crummock Water and Loweswater from the summit of Whiteless Pike |
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| The Lad Hows ridge leading up to the summit of Grasmoor |
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| The connecting ridge to Thirdgill Head Man and Wandope |
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| The Helvellyn range from the summit of Whiteless Pike |
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| Newlands Hause and Robinson from the summit of Whiteless Pike |
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| Looking south to the Scafell range |
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| The High Stile ridge from the summit of Whiteless Pike |
