The Perimeter is a photography project by Quintin Lake based on walking 11,000km around the coast of Britain in sections. The journey started on 17th April 2015 and was completed on 15th September 2020. After five years of editing 179,222 photos down to a curated selection of 1,300, accompanied by a 53-chapter travelogue, The Perimeter Book launches on 15th May, 2025.
Quintin Lake
I'll be walking two to three months per year and the daily distance will be 20-40km depending on the going. I'll be camping in the wilder parts and staying in guest houses in urban areas.
Why do this? I hope to learn more about our mysterious island nation and I can't think of anywhere else where each footstep leads to such different surprises, beauty and strangeness.
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible" Oscar Wilde
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Sixteen selected prints based on twenty-three days walk along the western coastline of the historic county of Ross-shire, Scotland. This beautiful and dramatic section includes Torridon, Coigach and Assynt. The walk took place in Winter and Spring 2019. Signed, limited edition prints are available from £195 Now […]
Date of walk: 5/6/19
Date of walk: 4/6/19 I’m heading into Coigach and Assynt, where the isolated mountains of Suilven and Quinag rise steeply from flat moorland like totems in the landscape. For three nights in a row, sunset appears with a luminous intensity as I’ve never seen before. […]
Date of walk: 2/6/19 I thought I’d seen it all by now, but the postman’s “path” to Culnacraig passes over some of the steepest ground I’ve yet encountered. If there weren’t a path to lure me onwards, I’d have turned back. I later found out […]
Date of walk: 22/4/19 Feeling lightheaded, angry and exhausted after seven hours toiling over the pathless moors, I’m frustrated to find I’ve only progressed 10km in all that time. My last bag of rations for this eighteen-day section is down to half a broken oak […]
Date of walk: 21/4/19 >
Date of walk: 20/4/19
Date of walk: 19/4/19 I have a sinister night’s sleep tonight, having pitched my tent opposite Gruinard Island, where in 1942, biological warfare tests using Anthrax took place. In 1990, after 48 years of quarantine, the island was deemed safe, and the warning signs were […]
Date of walk: 18/4/19 “They say when the Arctic convoy was here, you could walk from one side of the loch to the other there were so many ships”, a dog walker in Aultbea tells me. Judging by his attuned bearing, I ask if he’s […]
Date of walk: 15/4/19
