Honister Slate Mine will focus its attention this winter on resurrecting plans for a zip wire.

Bosses at the business, in the Borrowdale Valley, have been planning to revise their plans ever since the Lake District National Park Authority twice threw out its proposals.

Co-owner Joe Weir said no timescale was attached to the project but the business would work to draw up fresh plans in the coming months.

He said: "We are changing them to make them more acceptable to people. I haven't gone through the final details yet."

Mr Weir said it was important to keep developing the attractions on offer at Honister.

The site already runs mine tours and Via Ferrata trips, with a subterranean climb inside a mine recently added.

Mr Weir said: "It's important for Honister to keep going forward with the activities we have. We don't want to go stale or stand still. We want to progress.

"We have things in the pipeline but the zip wire is hopefully going to be prominent for us this winter. It's where the effort's going to go."

The mine employs about 20 people.

Its zip wire plans were first devised by Mr Weir's later brother Mark, whose vision was to create a line taking visitors from Black Star on Fleetwith Pike back to the mine car park.

After that application was rejected in September 2011, six months after his death in a helicopter crash, new plans were drawn up.

Despite hundreds of letters supporting the proposal, it too was thrown out by planners in January 2013.

Mine bosses have been working towards a revised plan since then.