Scafell is the Lake District's highest peak

Iain McCurrach used a three tonne digger to fill in an eroded section of path that had created an ugly scar on the route up Scafell Pike.

Together with his terrier, Eric, he walked up and down the mountain every day from his caravan base camp.

The digger was flown 700m (2,297ft) up the mountain in pieces by helicopter and took three days to assemble.

The path on the Brown Tongue and Hollow Stones section of Scafell had become so eroded that it had become a wide, white scar on the landscape.

'Time-honoured methods'

The 978 metre (3,210ft) peak attracts in excess of 100,000 walkers a year.

Richard Fox, from the Lake District National Park Authority said: "It is certainly one of our busiest paths and used by hordes of people.

"The path was getting ever wider and more visible. The big white scar could be seen from way down Wastwater and spoiled a lovely view.

"It was good to see how a modern machine recreated time-honoured methods of repairing land and building a new stone topped path."

The �25,000 restoration came from Fixthefells, a joint initiative between the Lake District National Park Authority, Lake District Tourism and Conservation Partnership, National Trust, English Nature and the Heritage Lottery Fund.