Identifier: rockclimbinginno00abra (find matches)
Title: Rock-climbing in North Wales
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Abraham, George D. (George Dixon), 1872-1965 Abraham, Ashley Perry, 1876-1951
Subjects: Mountaineering Wales -- Description and travel
Publisher: Keswick, Cumberland : G.P. Abraham
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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astern Buttress is immunefrom these things at present. Shortly after Easter 1904, found us, withMr. G. E. Woodhouse, at the Gorphwysfa, im-proving our knowledge of Snowdonia, but moreparticularly with designs on making the secondascent of the buttress. Our plans for the ascent and subsequentarrangements are a fine example of how thebest laid schemes, even of climbers, are oftenupset. A mathematical friend, who had been seekingrelaxation, amongst the mountains, from theworries of instilling into the young idea a propersense of the proportion of things in general, andfigures in particular, expressed a desire to climbthe Great Gullv on Snowdon. He would start some time after us and awaitour arrival at the foot of the gully, where wewere to join him at two oclock luncheon; after-wards we would climb the gully together. Suchwere our plans, but we reckoned without theEastern Buttress, and, as events proved, ourproposed lunch was never realized. After a wet night, the morning broke cloudless
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THE STRRT OF THE ERSTERN BUTTRESS, LLlWEDD THE EASTERN BUTTRESS—CENTRAL ROUTE 211 and sunny, and we strolled up past Llyn Llydaw,making a bee-line for the foot of the crags.The sun was straight in front, and as we gotinto the shadow of Lliwedd, its light caught thebeads of water trickling over the bare patchesof rock—scintillating and beautiful to watch, butpromising greasy rocks and difficult climbing. After mapping out to our satisfaction themost vulnerable route, we followed the screefrom the foot of the Eastern Gullv for aboutsixty feet, until some easy slabs and a shortchimney indicated the easiest line to a wide grassand heather-covered ledge. This appeared to bethe correct base for our operations. We put on the rope, and built a cairn. The slabs and chimney * afforded a pleasantscramble, but in the upper part, one of us, instraightening out to reach a handhold, bumpedhis head so violently that the rope was necessaryto persuade him up to the ledge. After rubbinghis injured p

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