As a local the whole issue is tough, but I like to keep things simple. Mountains should be tackled up or down under your own steam - if you can't do it, dont' go there.
The 'honey pots' of Grasmere etc show what's really on the cards when you make somehwere like the Lake District 'user friendly'. The infrastructure can't handle for any further increase in activity. I appreciate tourism brings a lot of much needed employment to this area but something that sticks in my throat a little is the number of tourist businesses run and owned by 'outsiders' who have had the capital to set up here in the first place by selling up and moving from somehwere much more expensive and much less lovely.

Mark Weir was his own man - fine. Live along the lines he did and accept the risks that go with it. We all make our own choices. I dont' think this has anything to do with the Zip wire issue. I disagreed with it when he was alive (and flying over my house everyday in his helicopter) and his death has nothing to do with the question at hand.

WHile I'm on the subject too, that Julia Bradbury bird should be hung, drawn and quartered for what she's done to the hills in the last few years.
There. Better now.