Essential guidebook to the best winter climbing routes in the Lake District. All the known routes in every part of the Lakes are described. From classic high-mountain gullies and buttresses on crags such as Scafell, Pillar and Great Gable to frozen watercourses and icefalls including Great Gully on the Wasdale screes.

Acknowledgments Maps and diagrams in this guide Location map Map key Editor and #039;s note Introduction Conditions Winter ethics Winter climbing styles Where to climb? Equipment Winter grades Dry tooling grades Using this guide First ascents or first claims? South Lakes Langdale Oxendale Bowfell Langdale Pikes Coniston Dow The Old Man Of Coniston Wetherlam Tilberthwaite and The Slate Quarries West Lakes Eskdale Little Narrow Cove Wasdale Scafell Massif Scafell Scafell Pike Lingmell Mosedale Western Wasdale Ennerdale Mirklin Cove Mirk Cove and Wind Gap Cove Pillar Great Gable and Kirk Fell Gable South Gable North Kirk Fell Buttermere Honister Pass Fleetwith Pike - North Face Warnscale Bottom Birkness Combe Bleaberry Combe Grasmoor Newlands Coledale Whinlatter North Lakes Borrowdale Borrowdale East Great End Area Borrowdale West Northern Fells Skiddaw Blencathra (Saddleback) Carrock Fell Thirlmere East Lakes Helvellyn Massif Helvellyn Nethermost Cove Ruthwaite Cove Cock Cove Dollywaggon Patterdale and Adjacent Valleys Patterdale - East Patterdale - West Grisedale Deepdale Sleet Cove Dovedale Kirkstone Pass Far Eastern Fells Mardale Blea Water Riggindale Whelter Bottom Swindale Longsleddale Kentmere Outlying Areas The Howgills Northern Pennines Dry Tooling Routes First Ascents Appendix A Winter Climbing and Nature Conservation Appendix B Procedure for Mountain Accidents Appendix C Useful Contacts Appendix D Campsites and Camping Barns Appendix E Climbing Walls Index of Routes