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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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wn thescree towards Goats Water than any other j^art ofthe crag. The lower 800 feet of this buttress exhibita nearly vertical gully that may escape detectionaltogether unless viewed in a favourable light. Inthe view on the opposite page it is well marked bythe deep black shadow of the rocks on its south side.Apparently it joins a sloping gully that leads up tothe sky-line ; but in reality it finishes abruptly onthe face, at a small grass platform that stretchesa hundred feet across the buttress. It is nowknown as the Central Chimney, and was firstclimbed in April, 1897, by Mr. Godfrey Ellis andmyself. In the first edition of this book, the chimneywas erroneously identified with one of Messrs.Hopkinsons ascents of April, 1895. The route cannotbe recommended except to experts, by reason equallyof the genuine difiiculties in the chimney and of theexposed nature of the awkward situations in it. The next gully to the right forms the northernboundary of the great central buttress. Jt is but
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Q. P. Abraham & Sons, Photos. Doe Crag and Goatswater (Face page S30) Keswick DOE CRAG 221 sliglitly marked at the lower end and possesses seriousdifficulties in the first half. We shall call it theIntermediate Gully. It was first climbed in April,1 -95, by Messrs. Campbell, and Edward, Albert,and J. H. Hopkinson, and described by the mostexperienced of their party as the severest climb hehad done in the district. Mr. W. J. Williams and Iwent up it at Easter, 1898, when making a fairlycomplete survey of all these splendid, but practicahyunknown gullies. The Easter Gully now needs localization. Itcomes next to the preceding and is easy to identify.It has a huge cave pitch near the bottom, then froma great hollow in the crags a vertical chimney springsup over a hundred feet in a right-angled corner;above this the gully divides into two branches, bothof which give good climbing until we are nearly atthe summit-ridge. Careful inquiry enables me toisay that this was first climbed by Me

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