A talented self-taught outdoor broadcaster and photographer from the county will have his incredible film shown by the BBC later this month.

Terry Abraham, who lives in the Eden Valley, after moving there four years ago, has produced ‘Life of a Mountain: A Year On Helvellyn’ which uses enthralling camera work to capture life on the fell over a one year period.

The film is the third in a trilogy of Terry’s work, after films made on Scafell Pike and Blencathra.

But it is Helvellyn that holds a special draw to Terry.

He said he has a personal connection with Helvellyn and did not want to rush the film, which took him three years to make. He said: “It is one of my favourite places. I had a bad cycling accident which screwed me up. I was suicidal at times. I saw the fells as my saving grace. I took solace in the fells, Helvellyn is close by.”

Terry was made redundant, which gave him the opportunity to decide to go full time as a film maker and he made his first film, about Scafell Pike, which was picked up by the BBC. He said: “It changed my life overnight and I’ve not looked back since.”

He said he developed an appreciation for culture and a love of the countryside from his grandparents. Terry said: “My grandfather came over during the war, he was from Germany and he stayed here. He taught me bush craft and I think it had a profound effect."

Terry’s grandmother was a Russian immigrant. He said: “She survived the Nazi concentration camps and emigrated to Scotland, where she met my grandfather. She was constantly introducing me to museums and history and I devoured it.”

After a health scare in his 20s, when he said he had a suspected heart attack, it left him with a thirst to see more of the world.

On his latest film he said: “I wanted to end on a spectacular high and knock it out the park. I took three years to make the film because of Covid. Lockdown helped me out. I had a premiere date of May 2020, then lockdown happened, it enabled me to go through the editing and see how I could improve things.

“Ultimately it’s the beauty of the area that I care passionately about. I was determined to make sure there are visual scenes of the area that people haven’t seen before. Hopefully people will find it inspiring as well.”

‘Life of a Mountain: A Year On Helvellyn’ will be shown on BBC Four on January 26 at 9pm.