More than 650 people created a spectacular sight as they lit up a pocket of the Lake District to support earthquake victims in Nepal.

Just a few days after the second anniversary of the disaster, crowds descended for on Braithwaite for the Lakeland Festival of Light.

The festival, organised by Matt Le Voi of Lakeland Mountain Guides, was designed to raise vital funds for those still struggling to recover in Nepal.

With two years of events under their belts, Matt and the professional photography team had set themselves a mammoth task of lighting up Barrow, Stile End and Outerside – three moderate peaks - on Saturday

Matt said: "With the Catbells Festival of Light being such a success in 2016 and raising over £12,000 we knew we would have to do something big."

The festival started at the Rawnsley Centre in Keswick before the walkers made way for the village of Braithwaite.

As they got to Braithwaite they split themselves across the fells and got lined up for darkness.

The twist for this year was that the event team wanted to create the effect of Nepalese Prayer flags lining the fells, and so the team got to work on dishing out small bits of coloured acetate.

As darkness fell, the event photographers Carmen Norman, Tom Mcnally and Nick Landells got to work capturing the procession, with spectacular results.

Matt added: "It was a cool and breezy night, and we were being extra demanding this year by requiring the people on the mountains to stay as still as they could.

"By the time the pictures were being taken people had already been up on the mountains for a fair while, so they did well to stick it out and bear with us. Their perseverance has to be commended."

The total raised for the chosen charity PHASE Worldwide is currently still to be totalled, but based on

attendance figures and the raffle, plus cake sales by the event sponsor Little Chamonix Café of Keswick it will have easily surpassed £10,000.