Archive: this report describes the 2016 Kinder Scout fundraising appeal.

In May 2016, supporters reached a £10,000 fundraising target to help repair a damaged stretch of footpath on Kinder Scout in the Peak District National Park.

The Mend Our Mountains campaign was launched by the British Mountaineering Council in March to fund eight urgent upland repair projects in partnership with National Parks.

Among them was a severely-eroded path below the Ringing Roger rock outcrop on Kinder Scout.  The original report said supporters had pledged more than £12,400 towards an estimated £28,000 cost for stone-pitching a section of the route to the Kinder Plateau.

Update: the appeal ultimately raised more than £17,000. Stone was airlifted to Ringing Roger in November 2016. The national park’s 2017 Access Fund report says the path was stone-pitched and grass seed was used to help revegetation.

Mike Rhodes, access and rights of way manager at the Peak District National Park, said: “It’s quite an impressive thing that people are prepared to donate to something like this. They may not even walk the route themselves but still want to help us look after the landscape.

“The erosion had got to the point where we had to do something and this initiative from the British Mountaineering Council is absolutely brilliant.’’

The national campaign raised more than £103,000 for repairs to eight upland paths in England and Wales.

To find out more about the Peak District National Park and to find out about events across the park, visit www.peakdistrict.gov.uk