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White Side at 863m (2,832ft) is the broad ridge summit between Raise and Lower Man on the northern Helvellyn ridge, its grassy, open top offering good views west across Thirlmere to the Borrowdale fells.

Summit conditions on White Side

On the summit on Tuesday 27 October: 10° to 3°C, gusts to 58 mph, 19.9 mm of rain forecast over the whole day, midnight to midnight.

Against our lines, Tuesday 27 October: wind, cold and cloud from the Met Office UKV 2 km model (daylight hours, as in the verdict above); rain from the summit line’s forecast (the whole day). A tile is large when this top is past its line.

Wind on the top

Past the line

73 mph, our estimate for the open top in the worst daylight hour

The Met Office 2 km model’s gust of 56 mph times our exposure factor of 1.31. The summit line above gives Open-Meteo’s highest gust for the whole day, 58 mph, before any exposure factor.

The line Our line: 25 mph, where our wind Scale begins its 25–35 band: “balance affected; buffeting on exposed ground”. MWIS describes what wind does to a walker across a range rather than at a line: from about 20–25 mph it starts to affect your balance.

Estimated: it is not calibrated against summit readings, and the two forecasts can disagree by more than a band.

Cloud on the top

Past the line

19 out of 100, the clear-top reading

Averaged over the daylight hours, from the forecast’s humidity and low cloud.

The line Our line: a clear-top reading under 20 out of 100, where our scorer says “summit likely clagged in”. There is no outside threshold to cite; it is our estimate. What cloud does to finding the way: navigating in cloud.

Not an observation: cloud lifts and drops within the hour.

Rain, and the becks

Past the line

19.9 mm of rain over the whole day, midnight to midnight

The same figure as the summit line above and the 7-day forecast.

The line Our line: 6 mm in the day, where our scorer counts a day as soaking. We read rainfall, never river levels: becks in spate.

Open-Meteo’s forecast. It says nothing about rain already in the ground.

Also checked cold: feels like −2 °C, no ice or snow forecast. Under a line is not the same as fine: it means only that these figures are under the lines we use.

Not in these tiles Lightning, river levels, snow or ice already lying, and the ground under your feet. A tile cannot see them, so an empty space here never means they are absent.

Snow figures with a second opinion: Powered by Met Office data

Full 7-day summit forecast ↓

Wainwrights are scored for walking conditions each morning from the Met Office’s UK forecast model, read for each summit through Open-Meteo; the forecast figures are Open-Meteo’s, worked out for the summit’s height. How we check →

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com

Routes up White Side

Choose the way up before the car park: these two routes start from two places, and the last two rows give the parking and bus at each route’s own start. Full maps further down.

Helvellyn from Swirls: the walkers’ way upBrown Crag and Raise
Starts fromSwirls, Thirlmere (paid)Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) (paid)
Distance and climb9.37 km, 856 m of climb10.76 km, 779 m of climb
Time, fast to steady~3¼–4½ h~3¼–4¾ h
ScramblingNo scrambling.Not mentioned in the route’s notes
ExposureModerateNot assessed
NavigationHardModerate
Steepest stretchClimb of about 38% at 1.9 km (Severe)Descent of about 40% at 9.4 km (Severe)
After the summitNo further topsOver Raise
Walked or plannedWalked in part; km 0.4–2.8 from the mapPlanned: drawn, not yet walked
Car park at the startSwirls, Thirlmere (paid)Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) (paid)
Bus to the start555 at the start555 at the start

Times run from fast to steady pace (Naismith’s rule). Scrambling quotes each route’s own notes; “not mentioned” means they do not say, not that the ground has none. Each route’s page has its map, stages and GPX.

Distance, climb and the steepest stretch are measured from each route’s GPX track; the other grades are set on the ground, judged from the map or estimated from OpenStreetMap, and each route page says which. How we check →

Is White Side hard to climb?

Not hard, but steep to reach. From Swirls the pull up Browncove Crags reaches about 42%, and on the Brown Crag and Raise round an early pull reaches about 46%; once you are on the ridge the walking is easy grass. White Side sits on the northern Helvellyn ridge, and most people cross it rather than climb it: our Helvellyn round from Swirls is 9.4 km with 856 m of ascent, rated Severe overall for its steepness, and the round with Brown Crag and Raise is 10.8 km and 779 m.

The care it needs is not in the climbing. The broad flat top has almost nothing to fix on in cloud, and the eastern face drops abruptly in crag and scree into Keppel Cove and Brown Cove — the grass gives little warning before it goes. In winter this is full mountaineering ground: the range holds hard icy snow well into spring and cornices form over Keppel Cove.

How we check →

Conditions and 7-day summit forecast

Modelled for the 863 m summit (Open-Meteo). Check the Met Office mountain forecast and MWIS before you set off.

Full 7-day forecast
Tue 27 Oct
10° / 3°
58 mph
19.9 mm (100%)
Wed 28 Oct
7° / 4°
47 mph
8.2 mm (100%)
Thu 29 Oct
7° / 6°
28 mph
0.3 mm (33%)
Fri 30 Oct
7° / 5°
29 mph
0.0 mm (23%)
Sat 31 Oct
8° / -2°
8 mph
0.3 mm (18%)
Sun 1 Nov
6° / -2°
8 mph
0.0 mm (10%)
Mon 2 Nov
5° / -1°
16 mph
0.0 mm (0%)

Taken 27 October 2026, 08:13 UTC; the live forecast replaces it when it loads. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com

Pro mountain forecasts: MWIS · Met Office mountain forecast

Parking & buses for White Side

Parking

Route starts first, then the car parks nearest the summit, which are not always a way up.

Swirls, Thirlmere (paid) — at the start of Helvellyn from Swirls: the walkers’ way up
The standard west-side route up Helvellyn via Browncove Crags. Fees: pay and display; coins and cards (Lake District National Park car-parks directory, checked August 2026). Pay and display (visitlakedistrict.com); named as a UU Thirlmere car park on unitedutilities.com, which states no fee details (United Utilities, checked August 2026).
Directions Something changed here?
If it is full: Station Coppice, Thirlmere (LDNPA, paid) (0.2 km); Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) (3.4 km, 222 m up)
The Swirls Car Park (~49 m straight line) — Free · Accessible · RADAR key
Legburthwaite (United Utilities, small) — at the start of Brown Crag and Raise
St John's in the Vale — Sticks Pass side, High Rigg, Raven Crag. Fees: pay and display; coins and cards (Lake District National Park car-parks directory, checked August 2026). Pay and display (visitlakedistrict.com) (United Utilities, checked August 2026).
Directions Something changed here?
If it is full: Roadside parking for Great How (free) (0.7 km) a few spaces only; Dam Triangle, Thirlmere (paid) (1.4 km, 70 m up); Roadside parking for Raven Crag (free) (1.5 km, 70 m up) a few spaces only
Legburthwaite Car Park (~8 m straight line) — Free
Station Coppice, Thirlmere (LDNPA, paid) — 2.2 km from summit (straight line)
A small Authority car park on the A591 at Thirlmere, just north of the larger Swirls car park and separate from it. 18 spaces. Fees: pay and display; cards only (Lake District National Park car-parks directory, checked September 2026). Charges apply 9am-6pm every day including Sundays and bank holidays (visitlakedistrict.com, checked August 2026).
Directions When people arrive, and what it costs →Something changed here?
3 more places to park near White Side
A591 north of Swirls (car park) — 2.3 km from summit (straight line)
Walking base for Helvellyn, Helvellyn Lower Man, White Side and Nethermost Pike — the 'Helvellyn from Swirls: the walkers’ way up' route starts 479 m away. Also serves 'Helvellyn & Nethermost Pike via Seat Sandal'. Fee not verified — check signage on arrival.
Directions Something changed here?
Roadside parking for Great How (free) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)
0.5 km from Great How. Added from the 5 August 2026 OSM candidate review.
Directions Something changed here?
Great How (layby) — 3.0 km from summit (straight line)
Community walk pages start here for 'The Dodds and Clough Head, via Sticks Pass and St John's in the Vale' (community walk listings). Free (OSM-tagged). Unpaved surface (OSM-tagged).
Directions Something changed here?

Positions are approximate.

Of the pay-and-display machine tickets sold at Station Coppice from 17 August 2024 to 31 March 2026, 15% were bought before 10am (our count of FOI/2026.500 ticket data). Contains public sector information provided by the Lake District National Park Authority and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Vehicles are left at their owner’s risk: we list places people park and cannot vouch for any of them. Take valuables with you and leave nothing on show.

Buses

The 555 stops at Stanah Dam road end (near), a 290 m walk from the start of Brown Crag and Raise — a route we rate Severe overall (hardest: steepness). As timetabled from 27 October to 1 November. Towards Kendal (555): Tuesday to Friday 21:35 to Ambleside, 20:35 to Windermere, 17:42 to Kendal; Saturday 21:35 to Ambleside, 20:35 to Windermere, 18:12 to Kendal; Sunday 19:42 to Windermere, 18:12 to Kendal. Checked against the operator’s timetable, 24 September 2026. Times here are a guide, not a promise — leave yourself more than the minute.

Stagecoach 555
Kendal – Staveley – Windermere – Ambleside – Rydal – Grasmere – Thirlmere (Wythburn & Swirls) – Keswick
Catch it from: Windermere · Ambleside
Year-round, roughly hourly. The backbone bus of the A591 — ideal for Helvellyn (Wythburn/Swirls), Fairfield, the Central fells and anything around Grasmere/Rydal. From Penrith, take the X4/X5 to Keswick and change.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

Getting there across the Lake District: Buses · Parking map · By train · By boat

Hazards on White Side

Hazard & Incident Information for White Side

Checked by Lee McCoy, . Draws on published material from Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team. Editorial background, not a live callout feed.

Hazard: Moderate

A fell on the northern Helvellyn ridge with the range's familiar split character — easy grass to the west, but an eastern face of crag and scree falling abruptly into Keppel Cove and Brown Cove. The broad flat summit is easy to misread in cloud, and in winter this is full mountaineering ground, holding hard icy snow with corniced corrie edges. Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team covers this ground.

  • The eastern crags above Keppel & Brown Coves: The eastern face is crag and scree dropping abruptly into the corries, just north of the summit. Keep back from the eastern edge, especially in wind or cloud — the grassy top gives little warning before the steep ground.
  • Winter conditions on the ridge and corrie edges: The Helvellyn range holds hard icy snow well into spring, and cornices form over Keppel Cove. This is full winter mountaineering ground — ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, and a wide margin kept from the corniced edges.
  • Flat summit & ridge navigation in cloud: The broad, flat, grassy top has few features, and the whole ridge is a whiteout/mist navigation challenge. Take a compass bearing before moving toward Helvellyn (via Lower Man) or down to Glenridding, and don't drift east.
Who should attempt this fell: White Side is straightforward grass on its western side but shares Helvellyn's serious eastern edge — keep well back from the crags above Keppel and Brown Coves, and navigate the flat top by compass in cloud. In winter treat it as proper mountaineering ground: full kit, competence, and real caution near the corniced corrie rims.

What to watch for: Walkers straying toward the eastern crags above Keppel/Brown Coves · Slips and cornice collapse on the steep corrie edges in winter · Navigation errors on the flat summit and ridge in cloud · Underestimating full winter conditions on the high Helvellyn ridge

Local Mountain Rescue: Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team

Safety: Always check current conditions, carry proper navigation equipment, and seek qualified instruction before heading onto the fells. In an emergency, call 999, ask for Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Report incorrect information

Navigating in cloud

Care needed

Of the three things our terrain model measures, the highest reading here is the amount of steep ground within half a kilometre of the summit. Take care in poor visibility — carry map and compass, and know how to use them.

In winter — snow, whiteout, cornices, buried features — every top demands full winter navigation skills whatever its band, and a broad, gentle summit can be the worst place of all. See walking in bad weather and the navigation guide.

How White Side compares with all 214: the Clag Index (experimental).

If you need Mountain Rescue

Dial 999 or 112 and ask for the Police, then Mountain Rescue.

Before you call, have ready: where you are (a grid reference if you can – the OS Locate app shows yours on your phone), what has happened, how many of you there are, and your mobile number.

Then stay where you are until the rescue team contacts you.

If you cannot make a voice call because of a hearing or speech impairment, emergency SMS works only if you have registered first: text “register” to 999.

From Mountain Rescue England and Wales’s guidance on calling them out (read 26 October 2026).

Map, GPX and nearby Birketts

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap, with SRTM elevation data (switch layers top-right).

Parking, toilets and buses: Parking & buses ↑.

Birketts within 3 km of White Side

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits. Distances are straight lines: check the ground and access on a map before adding one.

1.1 km SHelvellyn Lower Man925 m · Eastern
1.4 km NWBrown Crag610 m · Eastern
2.6 km NEGreen Side (White Stones)794 m · Eastern

Routes over White Side

Brown Crag and Raise
Summits: Brown CragWhite SideRaise

Download GPX Planned route · not yet walked

Warnings: The Helvellyn range holds hard icy snow well into spring, and cornices form over Keppel Cove. This is full winter mountaineering ground — ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, and a wide margin kept from the corniced edges. Raise catches and keeps snow, and its slopes can be hard enough that step-kicking alone won't get you up or down safely. When there's snow or ice you need an ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them; the steep flanks toward Keppel Cove and Sticks Gill are unforgiving of a slip.

Route guide →

Helvellyn from Swirls: the walkers’ way up
Summits: HelvellynHelvellyn Lower ManWhite Side

Be aware there is no good bail-out on this one. If the weather turns, your realistic option is to turn round and go back the way you came. If you have summited Helvellyn and are heading on for White Side but have had enough, simply return to the car and leave White Side for another day. If you are already on White Side and need to get down quickly, keep losing height on the descent towards Brown Crag rather than inventing a line of your own.

Download GPX Walked in part, July 2023 · km 0.4–2.8 from the map

Best season: All year for competent walkers, but this is a serious mountain. In winter the summit plateau holds snow and ice long after the valley is clear, and the eastern edge becomes a cornice — that is an ice-axe-and-crampons day, not a walk.

Warnings: The summit plateau is the danger, not the climb. It is broad, featureless and ringed by crags on its eastern side. In cloud, people walk off the edge. Know your bearing off the top before you get there, and count your paces. A steep, sustained pull up Browncove Crags — around 830 m of ascent in under 5 km. Pace it. It is a mountain, however gentle the path: carry map, compass, warm layers and food, and check the mountain forecast, not the valley one. Helvellyn is one of the busiest fells in England. Underfoot the path is worn and stony — most injuries here are simple slips on the descent. The Helvellyn range holds hard icy snow well into spring, and cornices form over Keppel Cove. This is full winter mountaineering ground — ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, and a wide margin kept from the corniced edges.

Route guide →

Every line here is a guide, not a guarantee — conditions change. Navigate for yourself and carry a map and compass. How to use this guide.

On the hill: terrain and water on White Side

Water & shelter on the way up

On the Brown Crag and Raise route:

bus shelter (78 m off the line) Thirlmere Dam Road End (219 m from the start, straight line)

On the Helvellyn from Swirls: the walkers’ way up route:

shelter (mapped, not checked; 7 m off the line) Swirls car park (67 m from the start, straight line)

On-route facilities © OpenStreetMap contributors, per route — an absent marker doesn’t mean none.

About White Side

Wainwright noted it as a pleasant, unhurried summit on the excellent ridge walk between Helvellyn and the northern Dodds. The western slopes descend steeply to Thirlmere — the views of the reservoir from this angle are distinctive. Most naturally reached as part of the Helvellyn ridge traverse from Thirlspot, or as an alternative to the Helvellyn approaches from the east.

Field notes

If my memory serves me well, as it is probably superseded by what was about to happen, ascending White Side, in terms of physical effort or complexity, wasn't anything untoward. It was a fairly simple climb via a clear route from Wythburn church. I'm not a big fan of forest-like tracks but that's part of the cost for what is ultimately a fantastic hike. If you are bagging Birketts too, there's a relatively free one in the shape of Brown Crag which is just to the right of the track I took below - it's just beyond a slight bluff.

— Lee McCoy, who walked it on our Helvellyn from Swirls: the walkers’ way up route in July 2023

My Strava hikes over White Side

1 logged hike pass over this summit:

Data from Strava.

Classifications & hill data

Is White Side a Wainwright?

White Side is a Wainwright. It is also on the Birkett list, the Synge list, the Nuttall list, the Fellranger list and the Hewitt list.

Selected lists

Wainwright
Eastern
Birkett
Fellranger
Synge
Nuttall
Hewitt
863 m
Height
2,832 ft
In feet
NY 3377 1666
Grid ref

This is the summit’s grid reference. If you call from anywhere else, give your own position, not this one.

The summit is also a Birkett.

Lists, height and summit position from the Database of British and Irish Hills; the feet are converted from its metres and the grid reference from that position. How we check →

The view from White Side

The 360° skyline from White Side

A computed 360° skyline — every visible named top labelled by distance and bearing, from the terrain model in perfect clarity, not photographed. Drag to pan; reveal the far four-nations horizon.

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Computed 360-degree skyline from White Side36 labelled tops shown (13 distant behind the far-horizon toggle). Theoretical visibility in perfect clarity; computed from terrain, not photographed.eye levelNNEESESSWWNWScafell Pike · 16 kmSkiddaw · 15 kmBowfell · 14 kmGreat Gable · 14 kmPillar · 17 kmBlencathra · 11 kmCrinkle Crags · 15 kmGreat Dodd · 4 kmGrasmoor · 17 kmStybarrow Dodd · 2 kmSt Sunday Crag · 4 kmHigh Street · 12 kmHart Crag · 6 kmHigh Stile · 17 kmHigh Raise · 12 kmKnowe Crags · 11 kmSwirl How · 17 kmGrisedale Pike · 15 kmThornthwaite Crag · 12 kmRobinson · 14 kmLong Side · 15 kmBowscale Fell · 14 kmCross Fell · 39 km · clear daysHelvellyn · 2 kmHelvellyn Lower Man · 1 kmRaise · 1 kmBlake Fell · 23 kmThe Knott · 11 kmBrandreth · 13 kmLonscale Fell · 12 kmRed Crag · 11 kmLoadpot Hill · 12 kmWether Hill · 12 kmTarn Crags Top · 14 kmLittle Calva · 16 kmHeron Pike · 4 kmEsk Pike · 14 kmGategill Fell Top · 11 kmLingmell · 15 kmGrey Friar · 18 kmHopegill Head · 16 kmHigh Crag · 16 kmLittle Stand · 16 kmGreat Calva · 15 kmDodd · 17 kmIron Crag · 22 kmCatstye Cam · 1 kmCofa Pike · 5 kmGavel Fell · 22 kmCriffel · 59 km · clear daysScar Crags · 14 kmHobcarton End · 16 kmRosthwaite Fell · 10 kmBleaberry Fell · 6 kmSwineside Knott · 5 kmLord's Seat · 17 kmSwarth Fell · 12 kmLittle Mell Fell · 11 kmTarbarrel Moss · 16 kmCalf Top · 45 km · clear daysBarf · 16 kmSighty Crag · 70 km · clear daysGreen Hill · 8 kmBaugh Fell · 47 km · clear daysHeughscar Hill · 16 kmSale Fell · 19 kmMickle Fell · 48 km · clear daysRogan's Seat · 60 km · clear daysClints Crags · 26 kmSlieve Donard · 192 km · a handful of days a yearMerrick · 114 km · a rare clear dayCairnsmore of Carsphairn · 110 km · a rare clear dayCairnsmore of Fleet · 98 km · a rare clear dayTinto · 124 km · a handful of days a yearGreen Lowther · 105 km · a rare clear dayPendle Hill · 89 km · a rare clear dayDivis · 194 km · a handful of days a yearGreat Whernside · 79 km · a rare clear dayWisp Hill · 83 km · a rare clear dayDun Rig · 115 km · a rare clear dayPeel Fell · 88 km · a rare clear dayBlackwood Hill · 82 km · a rare clear day
The skyline as a list, by direction
  • North: Stybarrow Dodd (2 km), Great Dodd (4 km), Knowe Crags (11 km), Gategill Fell Top (11 km), Blencathra (11 km), Atkinson Pike (12 km)
  • East: High Raise (12 km)
  • South-east: St Sunday Crag (4 km), Hart Crag (6 km), High Street (12 km)
  • South: Swirl How (17 km)
  • South-west: Esk Pike (14 km), Bowfell (14 km), Great End (14 km), Pike de Bield (14 km), Great Gable (14 km), Shelter Crags (14 km), Crinkle Crags (14 km), Crinkle Crags (15 km), Crinkle Crags (15 km), Ill Crag (15 km), Crinkle Crags (15 km), Broad Crag (15 km), Crinkle Crags South Top (15 km), Lingmell (15 km), Scafell Pike (16 km)
  • West: Crag Hill (15 km), Eel Crag (15 km), Grasmoor (17 km), High Stile (17 km), High Stile (17 km), Pillar (17 km), Black Crag (18 km), Red Pike (18 km), Scoat Fell (19 km)
  • North-west: Skiddaw South Top (14 km), Skiddaw Middle Top (14 km), Skiddaw (15 km), Skiddaw North Top (15 km), Broad End (15 km)

On the clearest days the far horizon adds: Slieve Donard (192 km, Ireland), Merrick (114 km, Scotland), Cairnsmore of Carsphairn (110 km, Scotland), Cairnsmore of Fleet (98 km, Scotland), Corserine (110 km, Scotland), Lamachan Hill (109 km, Scotland), Tinto (124 km, Scotland), Green Lowther (105 km, Scotland).

Computed from Copernicus GLO-30 terrain; distant tops from the Database of British and Irish Hills v18.4 (CC BY 4.0). See how we compute the view · and the summit intervisibility report below.

Sunrise and sunset on White Side

White Side sits close to the flat-horizon case. Even on its longest wait of the modelled year (on 1 January) first light is only 2 minutes after almanac sunrise, so the published sunrise time is a fair guide here.

0°30°40°50°60°04:31
Midsummer. The filled shape is the skyline as seen from the summit; the line is the sun’s path. Where they meet is first light — everything left of that point is the wait.
Times for 2026, in Lakeland clock time (GMT in winter, BST in summer) — and model outputs rather than observations.
First lightAlmanac sunriseDifference
Midsummer04:31 BST ±5.0 min04:36-5 min
Equinox06:11 GMT ±5.0 min06:15-4 min
Midwinter08:33 GMT ±5.0 min08:33—

A low, open northern horizon — the ground falls away northwards (mean -0.35°).

Last light — when the sun leaves White Side

The evening here runs close to the flat-horizon case. Even on its earliest evening of the modelled year (on 1 December) last light is only 1 minute before almanac sunset, so the published sunset time is a fair guide on White Side.

The evening of the same three days. A negative difference means a ridge takes the sun before the valley loses it.
Last lightAlmanac sunsetDifference
Midsummer21:59 BST ±5.0 min21:52+7 min
Equinox18:31 GMT ±5.0 min18:26+5 min
Midwinter15:50 GMT ±5.0 min15:49+1 min

These are daylight figures, not a descent plan: the light goes on fading for a good while after the sun leaves, and going down in it is a decision about your own ground and party, not about this table.

What you can see from White Side

On a clear day — computed sightlines, curvature- and refraction-corrected.
106Wainwrights in view+23 marginal
115 kmFurthest sightlineMerrick · possible under favourable refraction
1Sea in viewSolway Firth

On the clearest days the view reaches across to Scotland.

Far horizons
  • Merrick ScotlandNW · 115 km clear
  • Criffel ScotlandNW · 60 km distant
  • Ingleborough Yorkshire DalesSE · 59 km clear
  • Solway Firth bay/estuaryNW · 49 km in view
  • Great Dun Fell North PenninesENE · 40 km clear
  • Cross Fell North PenninesENE · 39 km clear
All 106 Wainwrights in clear view (nearest first)

Raise, Catstye Cam, Helvellyn, Stybarrow Dodd, Birkhouse Moor, Watson's Dodd, Sheffield Pike, Great Dodd, Raven Crag, Armboth Fell (Armboth Fell South Top), Glenridding Dodd, St Sunday Crag, Birks, High Tove, High Seat, Clough Head, Bleaberry Fell, High Rigg (Naddle Fell), Place Fell, Great Crag (Stonethwaite), Grange Fell (Brund Fell), Walla Crag, Angletarn Pikes (Angletarn Pikes North Top), Brock Crags (Wainwright), Gowbarrow Fell (Wainwright summit), Rosthwaite Fell - Bessyboot, High Raise (High White Stones), The Nab, Rest Dodd, Cat Bells (Catbells), Hallin Fell, Latrigg, Maiden Moor, Gray Crag, Thunacar Knott, High Spy, The Knott (High Street), Blencathra - Hallsfell Top, Glaramara, Rampsgill Head, Little Mell Fell, High Raise (High Street), Thornthwaite Crag, Dale Head, Lonscale Fell, Wether Hill, Loadpot Hill, Bonscale Pike, Hindscarth, Barrow, Bannerdale Crags, Base Brown, Causey Pike, Rossett Pike, Arthur's Pike, Allen Crags, Skiddaw Little Man, Brandreth, Fleetwith Pike, Scar Crags, Ard Crags, Outerside, Robinson, Esk Pike, Green Gable, Bowfell, Great End, Bowscale Fell, Carl Side, Great Gable, Knott Rigg, Dodd (Skiddaw), Sail, Skiddaw, Crinkle Crags - Long Top (Second Crinkle), Long Side, Haystacks (Buttermere), Crag Hill (Eel Crag), Grisedale Pike, Wandope, Great Calva, Ullock Pike, Lingmell, Scafell Pike, Kirk Fell, Bakestall, Whiteless Pike, Barf, High Crag (Buttermere), Hopegill Head, Lord's Seat, Whinlatter (Brown How - Whinlatter), Carrock Fell, Great Carrs, Pillar, Swirl How, Whiteside (Whiteside West Top), Red Pike (Buttermere), Red Pike (Wasdale), Scoat Fell (Little Scoat Fell), Mellbreak (Mellbreak South Top), Sale Fell, Starling Dodd, Hen Comb, Gavel Fell, Blake Fell

How the view from White Side compares with all 214 — the View Report: every Wainwright ranked by what you can see from the top.

How the skyline, light and sightlines are computed

Computed, not photographed. First light is the first minute the sun’s upper limb clears this summit’s own skyline and last light the last minute it is still clear of it, both solved against the 360° horizon profile behind The View from White Side. Almanac sunrise and sunset are the flat-horizon convention. Every time carries a ± band from the 30 m elevation model — it smooths arêtes and cornices, so nothing here claims better than five minutes.

Sightlines from the Copernicus GLO-30 elevation model, which is a surface model: each 30 m cell holds the top of whatever stands there, trees and buildings included, rather than bare ground. Corrected for the Earth’s curvature and average atmospheric refraction. “Distant” sightlines and any over 100 km depend on exceptionally clear air. Modelled from Copernicus GLO-30 open elevation data — a guide to the view, not a guarantee of any single one.

Places to stay near this fell

We have not stayed at any of them. We take no bookings or affiliate fees. Distances are straight lines from each route start, never walking times. Properties found via OpenStreetMap.

Frequently asked questions about White Side

Is White Side hard to climb? Answered above.

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