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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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this well-exploredregion. The Professors Chimney. — This looksalmost as difiicult as the Great Chimney opposite, butis more a test of style than skill, the only troublebeing that of loose rocks. Though unworthy ofperfect confidence at all times, it may become mostfriendly in times of frost; many loose stones occurthat can be safely pressed though dangerous to p)ull,so that with a slight modification of style they arerendered highly useful. Then of course two loosestones may share ones weight when one cannottake it. The introduction of all this elementary practicalmountaineering is due to my recollection of a hugestone that came away near the top of the ProfessorsChimney when my party were coming up it. 1 wasout of harms way on the Jordan above, but inwrestling with the last part of the chimney, a portionthat slightly overhangs, the second in the party pulledaway the rock. It bounded down, ricochetting fromside to side, and for a moment placed the startledclimbers in imminent peril.
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HINTS TO WALKERS 27 In conclusion, just a word to pedestrians whohave come out to climb only by telescope. Theascent of Scawfell from the Lords Piake may besafely and rapidly accomplished by following its leadpast the entrance to Deep Ghyll. The best plan is to keep as straight a course onthe scree as the up-and-down nature of the Rakewill permit, with the steep rocks immediately on theleft. A pinnacle is almost at once passed on theright that in former times was oft mistaken by theunlearned for the great Scawfell Pinnacle, moreespecially because a cairn had been erected on itscrest as a decoy, by the wily discoverer of the traepinnacle. Then it becomes necessary to descend alittle, taking care not to slither down to the rightwith the loose debris. After a few yards the slopeagain rises for a while, and an easy gully shortlydiscloses itself on the left, following which the touristwill find himself in a few minutes on the stonyplateau that at an easy inclination travels awayv/estward t

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