Identifier: cu31924103707968 (find matches)
Title: Rock-climbing in the English Lake District
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jones, Owen Glynne Abraham, George Dixon, 1872- Abraham, Ashley Perry, 1876-1951 Wordsworth Collection
Subjects: Mountaineering
Publisher: Keswick, Cumberland, G.P. Abraham
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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frontispiece in the Playground ofEurope might have been drawn on our ridge. Therewas a sense of perfect security out there as we satastride the sharp ridge or clasped the huge blockswith a fraternal embrace. My only regret was thatthe arete was all too short—we arrived at thepinnacle much too soon, I proposed to descend tothe Jordan and down by the Professors Chimney,but my companions pointed out that the latterwould be damp and rickety, and such a change fromour recent sport that we could get little fun outof it. I reluctantly yielded to the vote of themajority and went ofP to a halting-place in thehollow at the head of the Moss Ghyll variationexit. Scawfeil Pinnacle, Deep Ghyll route.^ Li October, 1887, a strong party led by the brothersllopkinson found a way down the outside face of theScawfeil Pinnacle, to a point on the ridge within ahundred feet of the first pitch in Deep Ghyll. Therethey built what is now known as the Hopkinsonscairn. Li April, 1893, Messrs. C. Hopkinson and
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G. P. Abraham & Sons, Photos. Keswick The Last Hundeed Feet on the Scawfell Pinnacle (Face page 76) THE PINNACLE FROM DEEP GHYLL 77 Tribe worked up the left wall of the ghyll from thesecond pitch, and reached the main north areteabout sixty feet above the cairn. They wereapparently unable to force a way directly up theridge, and managed instead to descend it for a fewyards and then to climb up the face of the Low Manby the 1887 route on the east side of the arete. They thus succeeded in reaching the summit ofthe pinnacle from Deep Ghyll, and an examination ofthe illustration facing page 83 of the great wall thatthey climbed will prove that the performance was anunusually brilliant one. (The photograph shows thenorth ridge twenty feet to the left of the leader, whois about forty feet above the second man.) Very little was generally known of that dayswork, the note in the Wastdale climbing book beingof the briefest description ; and it cannot be countedunto me for originality that i

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