Lake District Winter Climbs - Snow, ice and mixed climbs in the English Lake District

Informationen zum Autor Brian Davison has been winter climbing for some 30 years and has notched up an impressive list of first ascents in Scotland, Wales and the English Lake District. These include Big Daddy (VIII, 8) in Coire Sneachda, Mort (IX, 9) at Lochnagar, and Moss Gill Grooves (V, 6), Harvest (VII, 9) and Mechanical Orange (VIII, 8) all on Scafell. He has also made many expeditions overseas to such diverse areas as the Himalaya, Morocco, Greenland, Alaska and South Georgia. His intimate knowledge of the Lake District has further been enhanced by endurance feats such as completing an unsupported Bob Graham Round, and climbing all the Lakes’ routes in Classic Rock in a day without use of a vehicle. He lives in Lancaster with his family and is a researcher at Lancaster University. Klappentext The Fell and Rock Climbing club was founded in 1906-07! and membership has since grown to well over 1000 members worldwide who found their mountaineering origins in the Lakes. Its aims are to encourage rock climbing and fell walking in the English Lake District and to act as a bond of union for its members. The club publishes a number of guides to climbing in the area! as well as a bi-annual supplement to new routes. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Maps and diagrams in this guide Location map Map key Editor'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 ...

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• Autori: Brian Davison
• Editore: Cicerone Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2012
• EAN: 9781852847166
• ISBN: 978-1-85284-716-6
• Pagine: 464
• Categorie: Viaggi > Sport e vacanze attive > Europa; Cumbria