The village is popular with mountain walkers who can scale England's third highest mountain, Helvellyn, and many other challenging peaks from here.
The somewhat flat summit made the first British mountain-top landing of a plane possible, when John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler successfully landed and took off again, in 1926.
They chose to land on Helvellyn in the English Lake District, which is 3,117 feet above sea level.
22 December 1926: John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler (1892–1933), the chief test pilot of A.V.Roe Avro Manchester, land on Helvellyn in the Lake District (the first aeroplane to land on a mountain in Great Britain)
He had heard of the attempt to land an aircraft on Helvellyn earlier that month, but the flyers John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler had been delayed by weather and mechanic problems.
During this time, she participated in two operatic premieres, creating the title role in Alfred Mellon's Victorine on 19 December 1859, and the role of Mabel in George Alexander Macfarren's opera Helvellyn on 5 November 1864.