Rock-climbing in the English Lake District

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Author

Jones, Owen Glynne, 1867-1899

Title

Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition

Credits

E-text prepared by Anita Hammond, Wayne Hammond, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Lake District (England) -- Description and travel

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 56043

Release Date

November 24, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ROCK-CLIMBING IN THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT BY OWEN GLYNNE JONES, B.Sc. ( Lond. ) MEMBER OF THE ALPINE CLUB With a Memoir and Portrait of the Author, Thirty-one Full-page Illustrations in Collotype, Ten Outline Plates of the Chief Routes, and Two Appendices by GEORGE AND ASHLEY ABRAHAM THIRD EDITION G. P. ABRAHAM AND SONS KESWICK, CUMBERLAND 1911 All rights reserved Price 21s. net ]
2. 2.PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.OWEN GLYNNE JONES.
5. 5.CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE AND FIRST CLIMBS
6. 6.CHAPTER II CONQUERING THE ALPS
7. 7.CHAPTER III THE LAST SEASON IN THE ALPS
8. 8.CONTENTS
9. 9.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
10. 10.OUTLINE DRAWINGS OF THE CHIEF ROUTES
11. 11.INTRODUCTION — Easy Courses. — Moderate Courses. — Difficult Courses. — Exceptionally Severe Courses.
12. 12.ROCK-CLIMBING
13. 13.CHAPTER I PIKE’S CRAG
14. 14.CHAPTER II DEEP GHYLL. THE GREAT CHIMNEY AND PROFESSOR’S CHIMNEY
15. 15.CHAPTER III THE RAKE’S PROGRESS AND CERTAIN SHORT CLIMBS NEAR IT
16. 16.CHAPTER IV MOSS GHYLL, COLLIER’S CLIMB, AND KESWICK BROTHERS’ CLIMB
17. 17.CHAPTER V SCAWFELL PINNACLE
18. 18.CHAPTER VI GREAT END AND ITS GULLIES
19. 19.CHAPTER VII GREAT GABLE. THE ENNERDALE FACE AND THE OBLIQUE CHIMNEY.
20. 20.CHAPTER VIII THE ENNERDALE CENTRAL GULLY AND TWO LITTLE CHIMNEYS
21. 21.CHAPTER IX THE GREAT NAPES AND ITS GULLIES
22. 22.CHAPTER X THE RIDGES OF THE GREAT NAPES
23. 23.CHAPTER XI THE GABLE NEEDLE
24. 24.CHAPTER XII KERN KNOTTS
25. 25.CHAPTER XIII THE WASTWATER SCREES
26. 26.CHAPTER XIV PAVEY ARK
27. 27.CHAPTER XV DOE CRAG, CONISTON
28. 28.CHAPTER XVI COMBE GHYLL
29. 29.CHAPTER XVII THE PILLAR ROCK
30. 30.CHAPTER XVIII NOTES ON REMAINING CLIMBS
31. 31.APPENDIX.
32. 32.APPENDIX.
33. 33.APPENDIX II
34. 34.CHAPTER I THE PILLAR ROCK AND ITS PURLIEUS UP TO DATE
35. 35.CHAPTER II NEW CLIMBS ON GREAT GABLE, SCAWFELL, AND AROUND WASTDALE HEAD
36. 36.CHAPTER III THE BUTTERMERE CLIMBS, AND THOSE IN OUTLYING DISTRICTS
37. 37.CHAPTER IV RECENT CLIMBS AROUND LANGDALE AND DOE CRAG
38. 38.INDEX.
39. 39.WASTWATER HOTEL, WASDALE HEAD, CUMBERLAND. — SMOKE AND BILLIARD ROOMS.
40. 40.Rowhead Temperance Hotel, WASDALE HEAD.
41. 41.SUN HOTEL, CONISTON. (Quarters of the Fell and Rock-Climbing Club.) — T. SATTERTHWAITE, Proprietor.
42. 42.LODORE HOTEL, Borrowdale, KESWICK.
43. 43.JAEGER PURE WOOL Complete Outfits in Pure Wool for Climbers.
44. 44.H. HARDEN, PRACTICAL ALPINE BOOTMAKER. — PRICES ON APPLICATION.
45. 45.St. John Street , KESWICK, CUMBERLAND.
46. 46.BURBERRY WEATHERPROOF CLIMBING KIT
47. 47.ARTHUR BEALE, Late JOHN BUCKINGHAM, 194 SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON, W.C. IS THE ONLY MAKER OF THE CELEBRATED ALPINE CLUB ROPE, WHICH IS ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY EMPLOYED — ARTHUR BEALE (late John Buckingham ), 194 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W.C. ICE AXES by English and Foreign Makers kept in Stock.
48. 48.JAMES S. CARTER
49. 49.LANGDALE. Dungeon Ghyll New Hotel (Quarters of the Fell and Rock-Climbing Club).
50. 50.MOUNTAIN AND CLIMBING PHOTOGRAPHS.
51. 51.Messrs. G. P. ABRAHAM & SONS, Victoria Buildings, KESWICK.
52. 52.FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber’s Note:

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