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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stdale, inquire for the hardest thing about, andat the mention of Moss Ghyll would straightway flingthemselves into the breach and by hook or crookwriggle themselves up and out in triumph. Otherswere unsuccessful, and it was always amusing tolearn where the stupendous difficulty had arisen,where no mortal man could have gone further. Thepersonal equation was always in evidence, both inthe actual climbing and in the history thereof. My companions at Whitsuntide were Messrs. W.Brigg and Greenwood. Neither of them had beenin the ghyll before, but both were very keen to makeits acquaintance, though so far as reading could takethem the smallest details of the climb were perfectlywell known. We separated oil from a larger party onthe Rakes Progress, and at the entrance to the gully,which I have already defined in position, we ropedup and began the rock climbing at once. There are afew small and stiff pitches that may be taken as theycome in the first fifty feet of ascent from the Progress ;
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o 3 ^ a o . > _• .g +31. O o ^ 31^aa £ to . S S > MOSS GHYLL 4/ but we were quiet willing to make the usual divergenceto the right from the entrance to the first cave. Thisled us up easy grass and rock close to the gully,which soon dwindled into utter insignificance byreason of its right wall being almost entirely cutaway. Keeping out in the open until the slopesuddenly steepened, we made a traverse into thegully, and walked up the screes until stopped by along and awkward-looking grass-crowned chimney.Then we were hemmed in on both sides, and my friendswere invited to define the nature of the next move.They knew something of the locality ; we had toclimb up the right-hand M^all on to a level platformsome eighteen feet higher, and then work back intothe ghyll by a slightly upward traverse. The platformwas the well-known Tennis Court ledge, and itsvertical wall was one of the chief difficulties of formerdays. When in 1893 I had first occasion to climbthe wall, there was much i

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