Few climbs are awarded the honour of being reduced to their initials.
CB, the Central Buttress of Scafell, considered for years to be the
hardest climb in the British Isles, is one of them. 'Have any of you
ever noticed a bayonet-shaped crack descending from the skyline about
midway between Moss Ghyll and Botterill's Crack on Scawfell? No? Has
it never occurred to you that between these two climbs there is a
stretch of nearly two hundred feet of unscaled rock? No?'- Ashley P
Abraham, 1907. Despite this attempt by the president of the Fell &
Rock Climbing Club to goad the younger generation into action, it was
another seven years before Siegfried Herford made the first ascent of
Central Buttress. Ten historic essays, reproduced by courtesy of the
FRCC and the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club, chart the stages by which this
legendary route was besieged, conquered and finally, apparently,
domesticated. Or was it? In his introduction and commentary, Graham
Wilson assesses the growth of the myth, the challenges of the climb
and its status one hundred years on. And, as a coda, a
twenty-first-century account by a young female climber reflects on the
achievements of those who went before.
Les mer
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ISBN
9781910240243
Publisert
2016
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Vertebrate Digital
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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