This week a highly anticipated play has at last came to a popular Lake District theatre. 

Theatre by the Lake welcomed The Climbers on June 22 which will be running for a number of weeks. 

The play will be running until Saturday, July 16 and showing at 7pm with 2pm matinees on selected dates. 

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A spokesperson has desribed the plot, they said: "When Yasmin and Sherpa Tshering return from a perilous expedition to Everest without a member of their party, a lot of people have a lot of questions.

"Where is Yasmin’s husband Charlie? What happened on the mountain? Why do Yasmin and Tshering’s accounts differ so drastically?

"Private investigator Connie tries to distinguish hallucination from reality and delusion from fact; someone, somewhere, is not telling the truth.

"A mesmerising and thrilling exploration of the lure of the mountains, the drive to conquer and the price of staying alive."

Tickets for the show start from £10 and it runs for approximately 120 minutes. 

Guy Jones, Director of The Climbers, said: "The Climbers is part ghost story, part love story, set at an altitude where life hangs by a thread. It’s about the extremes of human endeavour and filled with a cast of intriguing characters.

"Carmen is one of the UK’s most exciting new playwrights, and I’m thrilled to be bringing her story to life amongst these hills I’ve been climbing since childhood."

Receiving its World premiere in the adventure capital of England and reputed birthplace of the British rock-climbing movement, The Climbers is described as a mesmerising and thrilling exploration of the lure of the mountains, the drive to conquer and the price of staying alive.

Theatre by the Lake Artistic Director, Liz Stevenson, added: "I’m proud that Theatre by the Lake is producing the World premiere of The Climbers, maintaining our commitment to new writing and telling stories that have a connection to our unique landscape and local communities."