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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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ppling with difficulties to beovercome—the use of the ladders in one instance,and in another of the cable by which the adventur-ous Mr. Ashforth was hauled up from above,being ample proof that these men were somethingmore than athletes.—I enclose my card, andremain yours, etc., The Recording Angel. My climbing readers may smile at this curiouslogic, evolved by one who evidently fails to realisethe meaning of our mountain sport, or else is amaster of sarcasm. I cannot think that the ascent of Twll Duwill ever become a popular climb. Its damprecesses would no doubt ajopeal to those famousand enthusiastic Yorkshiremen, who appear torevel in the wet and dismal depths of the verybowels of the earth. But should not the moun-taineer jnefer the breezy beauties of the higherregions, and of the great brown crags thatslant grandly down to the tumbled fragmentsof the lower slopes, or tower upwards to thesunny heights that lure us to breathe thepure air amongst the glories of the summitrocks ?
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R PEEP DOWN THE DEVILS KITCHEN flT IDWRLRND LLYM OQWEM THE HANGING GARDEN GULLY 25 The Hanging Garden Gully and The DevilsStaircase.—A few days after the ascent of theDevils Kitchen, a large party of us spent a longday on Glyder Fawr, and on the way down wecalled in at the Kitchen to have a peep at theupper part of our route up the gorge. It wasa beautiful evening, so we clambered across tothe top of the grand crags to the north-west ofTwll Du. Most of us had had enough climbingfor that clay, but four of the insatiables creptout to the very edge of the great precipice andpeered over into Cwm Idwal. The steepness of the face was thrilling; aslight breeze nicked my cap from its appointedresting-place, and it fell clear of all impedimentdirect to the grass traverse leading from the footof Twll Du. The apparent tardiness of its descentroused my scientific companions, and forthwithplans were made for gauging the height of thecrags by the time a stone would take in thedescent. I have cons

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