Rock-climbing in the English Lake DistrictLongmans, Green, and Company, 1897 - 284 pages |
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Page 3
... vertical crack on the left , with excellent holds on the side wall . An easier way is by the right , up a series of steep , wet , and mossy ledges . This block was crowned by long tufted grass , and more moss in the bed of the gully ...
... vertical crack on the left , with excellent holds on the side wall . An easier way is by the right , up a series of steep , wet , and mossy ledges . This block was crowned by long tufted grass , and more moss in the bed of the gully ...
Page 8
... vertical , whereas here the issure in the rocks is almost perpendicular . We were a little perplexed by some ice that had frozen in large rounded knobs to a thickness of eight or ten inches over a steep six feet of the gully . An axe ...
... vertical , whereas here the issure in the rocks is almost perpendicular . We were a little perplexed by some ice that had frozen in large rounded knobs to a thickness of eight or ten inches over a steep six feet of the gully . An axe ...
Page 9
... vertical wall stretching across the gully , and rising twenty feet above our somewhat insecure standing . Beyond that the gully sloped evenly to the dark recesses of a cave , the jammed boulder of which almost appeared vertically above ...
... vertical wall stretching across the gully , and rising twenty feet above our somewhat insecure standing . Beyond that the gully sloped evenly to the dark recesses of a cave , the jammed boulder of which almost appeared vertically above ...
Page 10
... vertical wall again . It did not look any easier , and I am not prepared to say how narrowly I missed a second failure . After leaving the upright block the scanty holds soon dis- appeared , and with some desperate struggling I found ...
... vertical wall again . It did not look any easier , and I am not prepared to say how narrowly I missed a second failure . After leaving the upright block the scanty holds soon dis- appeared , and with some desperate struggling I found ...
Page 14
... vertical left wall that rises with scarcely a break to the Low Man on the Scawfell Pinnacle . This chimney constitutes the easiest and safest route over the second pitch . On the right face an irregular ledge leads to a larger chimney ...
... vertical left wall that rises with scarcely a break to the Low Man on the Scawfell Pinnacle . This chimney constitutes the easiest and safest route over the second pitch . On the right face an irregular ledge leads to a larger chimney ...
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Abraham & Sons arête ascent awkward block Bowfell Broad Stand buttress cairn cave Central Gully cleft cliff climber climbing book Collier's Climb corner crack Deep Ghyll descend difficulty East Jordan easy edge Ennerdale Esk Hause face feet high feet higher finish followed foot foothold Gable Glaramara glissade hand handholds Harrison Stickle Haskett Smith holds hundred feet jammed boulder jammed stone Kern Knotts Keswick leader ledge left wall looked loose stones Lord's Rake Mickledore Morgan & Kidd Moss Ghyll mountain Napes narrow Needle notch Oblique Chimney offered party passed Pavey Ark Photos Pillar Rock Pisgah platform Rake's Progress reached recess ridge right wall rope round route s.w. G. P. Abraham safe Savage Gully Scawfell Pinnacle scrambling scree gully Shamrock shoulder side slab slip slope snow Sprinkling Tarn steep grass straight summit Tarn Thence thirty feet traverse twenty feet upper upwards vertical walk Wastdale Wind Gap yards
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