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Winter sun highlights a lone tree standing atop the towering crags of Winnats Pass, near Castleton, in the Derbyshire Peak District, on a frosty February morning. Winnats means “wind gates” and sometimes the wind in the pass seems to blow at you from every direction. On this particular day, however, the stillness was almost eerie, the silence only broken by the occasional bleating of the resident sheep.