Wast Water, August 1999Described by Wordsworth as long, stern and desolate, Wast Water is the deepest lake in the Lake District. It is surrounded by the peaks of Red Pike, Kirk Fell, Great Gable and Scafell Pike, Englands highest mountain, in one of the remotest parts of the national park. Here, boulders have broken away from the areas famous screes steep slopes with loose stones foregrounded by the Guardian photographer Don McPhee. McPhee, who died in 2007, was a regular