 Jesty had earlier lived in Dolgellau, north Wales, and in the 1970s produced and published a panorama of the view from Snowdon, available as a single sheet or in four sections.In 1978 he published a panorama of the view from Scafell Pike with illustrations by Wainwright.He then moved to Bridport in Dorset, where he wrote several books about that area before moving to Kendal in Cumbria.