Rock-climbing in the English Lake District / Third Edition

by Owen Glynne Jones

INDEX.

• A
• A Gully, Pike’s Crag, [3-5]
• ”Wastwater Screes, [193]
• Aaron Slack, [114], [129]
• Abbey Ridge, Great Gable, [332-333]
• Abraham, Messrs., quoted, [247], [248], [288], [289], [290]
• Addyman, Mr. E. T. W., [333]
• ‘All the Year Round’ quoted, [38], [41], [286]
• ‘Alpine Journal,’ [12], [149], [164]
• Ampezzo Dolomites, [29]
• Angle Tarn, [33], [213]
• Ark, Pavey, [208-218], [358-361]
• Arrowhead Branch Gully, [149]
• ”Gully, [146], [158]
• ”Ridge, [147], [162-167]
• B
• B Chimney, Pike’s Crag, [7-10]
• B Gully, Wastwater Screes.
• See Great Gully
• ‘Backing-up,’ [124]
• Baddeley’s Guide Book, [33]
• Badminton ‘Mountaineering,’ [105], [112]
• Barton, Messrs., [321]
• Bear Rock, [147], [165]
• Beckhead, [114], [115], [121], [139]
• Beckhead Tarn, [115]
• Belaying Pin, Moss Ghyll, [50]
• Birkness Combe Climbs, [349-352]
• Black Chimney, Bleaberry Combe, [353]
• Black Crag Gully, Borrowdale, [354]
• Black Crags, [213]
• Black Sail Pass, [109], [254], [258]
• Blea Crags, [291], [292]
• Bleaberry Combe Climbs, [352-353]
• Blencathra, [93]
• Blue, Tom, [117].
• See Tom Blue
• Boot, [37]
• Borrowdale, [93], [98], [114], [237], [239], [242]
• Botteril, Mr. F., [322], [332], [342], [347]
• Botteril’s Cracks, Scawfell, [341-342]
• Bottle-shaped Pinnacle, [119], [123], [138]
• ””Ridge, [131], [335]
• Bowfell, [89], [211], [213]
• ”Buttress, [368-369]
• ”The Links, [367-368]
• Brandreth, [114], [117], [119], [136]
• Broad Stand, [27], [32-37]
• ””Descent, [40]
• Brown Tongue, [12], [28], [36], [91]
• Brunskill, Mr. W. B., [347]
• Buckbarrow, [196], [287]
• Burnmoor, [27]
• Burnthwaite, [252]
• Buttermere, [271], [281], [282], [287]
• Buttermere Climbs, [344-353]
• C
• C Gully, Pike’s Crag, [5-7]
• ”Wastwater Screes, [192], [193], [200-207]
• Cairn, Hopkinson’s, [76], [80], [81]
• ”Westmorland, [117], [151]
• Central Chimney, Bleaberry Combe, [353]
• ””Doe Crag, [226-232]
• Central Gully, Gable Crag, [118], [130], [138-145], [336-337]
• ””Great End, [90], [91-104]
• ””Wastwater Screes.
• See C Gully
• Central Jordan, [260], [318]
• Christmas climbing, [15], [19], [104], [120], [130], [197], [163]
• ‘Climbing in England,’ [211], [218]
• Cockley Beck, [213]
• Collie Step, [45]
• Collier’s Climb, [8], [24], [31], [32], [55-65]
• ”Chimney, [51-52]
• Collinson, Mr. W. L., [339]
• Colonel Crag, [379]
• Combe Ghyll, [237-242]
• Coniston, [213], [218], [219], [226]
• Corner, the Scawfell Chimney, [41]
• Court, the Tennis, [43], [44]
• Crack, Kern Knotts, [163], [182-187], [213], [238]
• Crack Grépon, [187]
• Craig, Mr. G. H., [349]
• ”Mr. Alan, [372]
• Croda da Lago, [78]
• Curtain and Crête Climb, Pillar Rock, [326-327]
• Curtain, the Great End, [111]
• ”Pillar Rock, [267], [268], [269], [326]
• Cust’s Gully, [39], [90], [111-113]
• D
• D Gully, Pike’s Crag, [11]
• Decoy Pinnacle, [27]
• Deep Ghyll (Hell’s Gate), [146]
• Deep Ghyll, [2], [12-28], [32], [43], [58], [69], [70], [76], [77], [80], [81], [82], [84], [85], [86], [87], [88], [341]
• Deep Ghyll Cairn, [42]
• Deer Bield’s Crag, Easedale, [366]
• Derwent, [238]
• Derwentwater, [93]
• ‘Divide,’ the, [106]
• Doctor’s Chimney, [136-140]
• Doe Crag, [219-236], [369-378]
• ”A Buttress, [371-372]
• ”B”[372-374]
• ”C”[374-375]
• ”E”[375-376]
• ”Blizzard Chimney, [376-377]
• ”Central Chimney, [220], [223], [226-232]
• ”Easter Gully, [221], [222], [235], [236]
• ”Great Gully, [219], [220], [223-226]
• ”Intermediate Gully, [232-234], [378]
• ”North Gully, [377]
• Dolomites, [29], [56], [78], [185], [214]
• Dress Circle, the, [174]
• Drigg, [170]
• Dungeon Ghyll, [208], [209], [211], [214]
• E
• Eagle Crag, [253]
• Eagle’s Nest, [160], [161]
• ”Gully, [146], [147]
• ”Ridge, [135], [147], [150], [155], [156-162], [163], [174], [314], [315]
• Easedale, [209]
• East Jordan, [260]
• ”Gully, [267]
• Easter Gully, Doe Crags, [221], [222], [235], [236]
• ‘Eight-foot Drop,’ [268]
• End, Great.
• See Great End
• Engineer’s Chimney, Gable Crag, [311-313]
• Engleberg Valley, [107]
• Ennerdale, [114], [254], [271]
• ”Face of Gable, [114], [115], [117-119]
• ”Pillar, [70].
• See Pillar Rock
• Esk Hause, [89], [93], [100], [110], [168], [213]
• Eskdale, [31], [34], [36], [42], [213]
• F
• Facework, difficulty of, [16]
• Fairfield, [215]
• Far West Jordan Climb, [327]
• Fell and Rock-Climbing Club, [337], [378]
• Fives’ Court, Pisgah Buttress, [54], [343]
• Fleetwith, [345]
• ”Gully, [345], [346]
• Freshfield’s Italian Alps, [29]
• Fünffingerspitze, [185]
• ”Chimney, [230]
• Furness Railway, [287]
• G
• Gable Crag, [141], [334-337]
• ””Central Gully, [118], [130], [138-145], [311]
• ””Oblique Chimney, [8], [118], [119-132], [136], [138], [141], [150], [183]
• ””Sheep Walk, [118], [131-133], [312]
• ””Traverse, [121]
• Gable End, [91]
• ”Needle, [147], [150], [153], [156], [160], [165], [168-174]
• Gap, Wind, [114], [119], [128]
• ”Windy (Wind Yatt), [254], [258]
• Gash Rock, [288]
• Gatesgarth, [271]
• Gatherstone Beck, [258], [259]
• Gavel Neese, [115], [121], [127], [138]
• Gibson, Mr. H. B., [327], [331]
• Gimmer Crag, [208], [361-365]
• ””A Route, [363]
• ””B Route, [363-364]
• ””Amen Corner, [363]
• ””Chimney, [361]
• Gimson, Messrs., [334]
• Glaramara, [237]
• Goatswater, [219], [220], [229]
• Gouldon Gully, [379]
• Grainy Ghyll, [92]
• Grasmoor, [353]
• Great Chimney, Deep Ghyll, [19], [24-26]
• ””Pillar Rock, [260], [267], [268], [325]
• Great End, [39], [89-91], [93], [99], [211], [237]
• ””Brother’s Crack, [338]
• ””Central Gully, [91], [92-103]
• ””South East Gully, [90], [104-111]
• Great Gable, [92], [114-117], [127], [135], [168], [176], [180], [237].
• See Gable Crag
• Great Gully, Doe Crag, [223-226]
• ””Pavey Ark, [213-218]
• ””Wastwater Screes, [194-199]
• Great Napes, [116], [146], [147], [163], [167], [168]
• ”Waterfall, [257]
• Green Cove, [259]
• ”Crag Gully, [345], [346]
• ”Gable, [114], [119], [128]
• ”Ledge, Pillar Rock, [323]
• Grépon Crack, [187]
• Grey Knotts, [114]
• Guideless climbing, [135]
• Gwynne quoted, [208], [210]
• Gwynne’s Chimney, Pavey Ark, [358]
• H
• Hand Traverse, [281], [282-284]
• Harrison Stickle, [208], [209], [214], [215]
• Haskett Smith, ‘Climbing in England,’ [211], [218]
• Hause.
• See Esk Hause
• Haystacks, [345], [347]
• Hazard, Mr. J., [332]
• ‘Heart of Lakeland,’ [344]
• Hell Gate, [117]
• Helvellyn, [215]
• High Level Route, Great Gable, [119]
• ” ”” Pillar, [259]
• High Man, Pillar Rock, [259], [260], [268], [269], [270], [281]
• High Man from the Nose, Pillar Rock, [324-326]
• High Stile, [286], [287]
• Hollow Stones, [2], [12], [22], [41], [48]
• Honister Pass, [114]
• Hopkinson’s Cairn, [76], [81]
• Horse and Man Rock, [2], [11]
• I
• Ice-axes, [112];
• applications of, [171], [184]
• Ill Fell, [207]
• Iron Crags, [304-311]
• ‘Italian Alps,’ Freshfield’s, [29]
• Italy, Northern, [184]
• J
• Jack’s Rake, [209], [210], [217], [218]
• Jammed-stone Pinnacle, [140], [141]
• Jenkinson’s Guide Book, [33]
• Jordan Gully, [259]
• ” Pillar Rock, [70], [257], [258], [260], [281]
• ” Scawfell Pinnacle, [19], [26], [69], [70], [72], [76]
• Journal, ‘Alpine,’ [12], [149], [164]
• ” ‘Scottish Mountaineering,’ [193]
• K
• Kern Knotts, [104], [117], [175-189], [213]
• ””Chimney, [175-182], [186]
• ””Crack, [163], [182-187], [213], [238]
• ””West Chimney, [187-189]
• Keswick Brothers’ Climb, [31], [66-68]
• Kirkfell, [114], [117], [136], [139]
• Knotts, Grey, [114]
• Knotts, Thunacar, [214]
• L
• Langdale, [33], [215]
• Langdale Combe, [213]
• ” Pikes, [208], [213]
• Langstrath, [239], [288]
• Laycock, Mr. J., [334]
• Le Coin, [323], [324]
• ‘Ledge,’ the, Pillar Rock, [268]
• ” Tennis Court, [43]
• Left Pisgah, [260], [266]
• Ling Chimney, [314], [315]
• Lingmell, [2], [91], [173], [285]
• ‘Little Dru of the Lake District,’ [69]
• ” Gully, Pavey Ark, [210-213]
• ” Hell Gate, [146]
• Liza Stream, [114], [254], [281]
• Lliwedd, [226]
• Looking Stead, [254], [258], [259]
• Lord’s Rake, [13], [16], [22], [27], [29], [34], [36], [69], [73], [74], [79], [83], [84]
• Low Man, Pillar Rock, [70], [257], [258], [260], [261], [269], [270], [272], [276], [278], [281]
• Low Man, Scawfell Pinnacle, [14], [16], [70], [73], [74], [77], [82], [83], [85], [88], [265]
• Low Man Cairn, Scawfell Pinnacle, [83]
• ” ” ” Pillar Rock, [270]
• Lower Kern Knotts, [175], [176]
• Lyon, Mr. H. B., [338], [346]
• M
• Manchester Town Hall, [191]
• ‘Mantleshelf,’ the, [277], [282]
• Marshall, Prof. Milnes, [13]
• Matterhorn, [135]
• Mauritius, Pieter Botte, [69]
• Mickledore, [1], [12], [13], [29], [31], [34], [35], [37], [38], [40], [65]
• ” Chimney, [32].
• See Scawfell Chimney
• ” Screes, [36]
• Mönch, [208]
• Mosedale, [92], [254], [258]
• ” Rocks, [337-338]
• Moses’ Sledgate, [115], [121], [128]
• Moss Ghyll, [15], [30], [32], [43-53], [76], [92], [239], [341]
• Mouse Ghyll, [291], [292], [354]
• N
• Napes, Great, [116], [136], [146-147], [150], [172]
• ” White, [115], [127], [128], [133]
• Needle, Gable, [147], [150], [153], [156], [160], [165], [168-174]
• ” Gully, [146], [150-152], [154], [159], [162], [174]
• ” Ridge, [147], [153-156], [334]
• Neese, Gavel, [115], [121], [127], [138]
• Nether Beck, [190]
• New North West Climb, Pillar Rock, [318], [322-324]
• New West Climb, Pillar Rock, [317], [318-320]
• North Climb (Pillar Rock), [271-282]
• ””(Penrith), [31], [37], [38], [55]
• ‘Nose,’ the, Pillar Rock, [257], [259], [271], [275]
• ”” Scawfell Pinnacle, [74]
• ‘Notch,’ the, [268]
• O
• Oak How Needle, [336]
• Oblique Chimney, [8], [118], [119-132], [136], [138], [141], [150], [182], [183]
• Old Man, Coniston, [213], [219], [229]
• ”Wall, Pillar Rock, [269], [326]
• Oppenheimer, Mr. L. J., [321], [322], [344], [345], [349], [350]
• Oppenheimer’s Chimney, [353]
• ‘Outside Edge,’ Gable Needle, [173]
• P
• ‘Pall Mall Budget’ quoted, [170]
• Parson’s Gully, [42]
• Pavey Ark, [208-218], [358-361]
• ”” Benison’s Chimney, [360]
• ”” Gibson’s Chimney, [360]
• ”” Gullies, [208], [218]
• ”” Great Gully, [213-218]
• ”” Little Gully, [210-213]
• Pedestrians, Notes for, [27]
• Pelmo Traverse, [29]
• Pendlebury Traverse, [268]
• Penrith Climb. See North Climb
• Petty’s Rift, [31]
• Photography and Climbing, [163]
• Pier’s Ghyll, [91], [239], [285-286], [342-343]
• Pieter Botte, [69]
• Pike of Stickle, [208], [213]
• Pike’s Crag, [1-11]
• Pikes of Scawfell, [2], [33], [50], [99]
• Pillar Fell, [91], [254], [255], [258], [267]
• ” Rock, [254-284], [317-331]
• Pinnacle, Bottle-shaped, [119], [123], [138]
• ” Jammed-stone, [140], [141]
• ” Scawfell, [19], [27], [69-88], [265]
• Pisgah Buttress, [53-55], [342]
• ” Left, [260], [266]
• ” Pillar Rock, [70], [257], [260], [328]
• ” Right, [260], [266]
• ” Scawfell, [19], [26], [32], [70], [71]
• ‘Playground of Europe,’ Leslie Stephen’s, [76]
• Pope, Mr. H. R., [333], [342]
• Pressure on Loose Stones, [26]
• Professor’s Chimney, [19], [25], [26], [27], [69], [70], [71], [76]
• Progress, Rake’s, [13], [29-32], [37], [38], [43], [46], [57], [58], [60], [63], [66]
• Pulpit Rock, [2], [11], [31], [33], [35]
• R
• Rake End Chimney, [218]
• ” Ennerdale Face, [121]
• ” Jack’s, [209], [210], [217], [218]
• ” Lord’s, [13], [16], [22], [27], [29], [34], [36], [69], [73], [74], [79], [84]
• Rake’s Progress, [13], [29-32], [37], [38], [43], [46], [57], [58], [60], [63], [66]
• Raven Crag, Chimney, [253]
• ”” Glaramara, [237], [242]
• ””” Gully, [242-253]
• ”” Great Gable, [117], [175], [180]
• Reade, Mr. H. V., [336]
• Robinson, Mr. J. W., quoted, [119], [120]
• Robinson’s Chimney (Deep Ghyll), [14], [16], [17]
• ” Gully, Great End, [90]
• Rope, How not to use it, [154], [155]
• ” Length of, [83], [239]
• ” Special application of, [225], [228], [278]
• Rossett Ghyll, [33]
• Rosthwaite, [238], [288]
• ” Fell, [237]
• Rothhorn, Zinal, [73]
• Rücksack Club, [345]
• S
• Sack, Carrying the, [101], [102]
• Sanderson, Mr. R. B., [342]
• Sanger-Davies’ Book, [78], [230]
• Savage Gully, [258], [261], [272], [273], [275], [276], [277], [320-322]
• Scarpetti, [214]
• Scarth Gap, [117], [271], [281]
• Scawfell, [13], [27], [29], [30], [35], [69], [70], [237], [339-347]
• ” Cairn, [37], [42]
• ” Chimney, [32], [34], [39-42]
• ” Crags, [1], [13]
• ” Pikes, [33], [208]. See Pikes of Scawfell
• ” Pinnacle, [19], [27], [69-88], [275]
• ”” by Deep Ghyll, [76-84], [195]
• ”” by Steep Ghyll, [11], [14]
• ”” from Upper Deep Ghyll, [339-340]
• ‘Scottish Mountaineering Journal,’ [193]
• Screes, Central Gully, [193], [200-207]
• ” Great Gully, [194-199], [248]
• ” Wastwater, [58], [190-207]
• Seathwaite Fell, [237]
• Seatoller, [238], [271]
• Seatree, Mr. George, quoted, [38]
• ‘Sentry-box,’ the, [52], [53]
• Sergeant Crag Gully, [288-290], [354]
• Shamrock, [255], [257], [259], [281], [329-330]
• ” Buttress, [330]
• ” Chimney, [256], [264-265], [330], [331]
• ” Gully, [25], [256], [261-264]
• ‘Sheep Walk,’ the, [118], [131], [133], [312]
• Shoulthwaite, [304]
• Skew Ghyll, [89], [92]
• Skiddaw, [93], [296]
• Slab and Notch Route, [260], [267-268]
• Slack, Aaron, [114], [129]
• Sledgate, Moses’, [115], [121], [128]
• Slingsby’s Chimney, Scawfell, [73], [75], [83]
• ” Crack, Pillar Rock, [270]
• Sloan, Dr. J. S., [335]
• Smuggler’s Chimney, [335]
• ” Retreat, [118], [335]
• Snow, Heavy, [23]
• South-east Gully, Great End, [90], [104-111]
• ‘Split Block,’ [277]
• Spout Head, [92]
• Sprinkling Tarn, [89], [93], [98], [100], [237], [252]
• Stack Ghyll, [348-349]
• Stake Pass, [214], [220]
• Stand, Broad, [27], [32-37], [40]
• Steep Ghyll, [13], [20], [30], [43], [48], [53], [57], [69], [71], [73], [74], [85], [86], [243]
• Step, Collie’s, [45]
• Stickle, Pike of, [208], [213]
• ” Tarn, [211], [215]
• Stirrup Crag, [118]
• ” Rope, [279], [280]
• ‘Stomach Traverse,’ [272], [274], [276]
• Stones, Hollow, [2], [12], [22], [41], [48]
• Stony Gully, [119], [141], [324], [325]
• Strands, [190]
• ‘Strid,’ the, [277]
• Styhead Pass, [89], [91], [115], [117], [168], [181], [213], [237]
• ” Tarn, [93], [128]
• Sugarloaf, [208]
• Switzerland, [111]
• Sylvan Chimney, [379]
• T
• Tarn Crag, Easedale, [365]
• Taylor, Dr. J. H., [322]
• Tennis Court Ledge, [43], [44], [47], [49], [53], [55], [61], [244]
• Thompson, Mr. P. A., [320], [321]
• Thornythwaite Fell, [237]
• ‘Thumbs Down,’ [180]
• Thunacar Knott, [214]
• Tin Box on Pinnacle, [72]
• Tom Blue, [117], [176], [179]
• Tongue, Brown, [12], [28], [36], [91]
• Toreador Gully, [346]
• Traverse, Gable Crag, [121]
• ” Hand, [281], [282], [284]
• ” Pelmo, [29]
• ” Pendlebury, [268], [269]
• ‘True Up,’ [104]
• U
• Ullswater, [345]
• Upper Eskdale, [42]
• ” Kern Knotts, [175], [176], [181]
• W
• Walker’s Gully, [254], [255], [256], [258], [267], [269], [295-304], [328-330]
• Warn Gill, [345], [347-348]
• Warnscale Gullies, [345-349]
• Wastdale Church, [48]
• ” Climbing-book, [1], [77], [119], [135], [136], [140], [156], [170], [247]
• ” Head, [115], [116], [117], [191]
• Wastwater, [1], [27], [36], [170], [287]
• ” Screes, [58], [190-207]
• Waterfall, Great, [258]
• West Chimney, Kern Knotts, [187-189]
• ” Climb, Pillar Rock, [269-271], [281]
• ” Jordan Crack, [327]
• ” Jordan Gully, [315]
• ” Wall Climb, [313-314]
• Westmorland Brothers, [152]
• ” Cairn, [117], [151]
• ” Crag, [117], [138], [151], [152]
• ” Mr. Horace, [356]
• Wetherlam, [219]
• White Napes, [115], [127], [128], [133]
• Williamson, Mr. C. N., quoted, [37], [41], [69], [70], [286]
• Willink’s Illustrations, [270]
• Wind Gap, [114], [119], [128]
• ” Yatt (Windy Gap), [254], [258]
• Windermere, [215]
• ‘Window,’ the (Moss Ghyll), [45], [49]
• Woodhouse, Messrs., [338], [370], [373], [375], [376]
• Y
• Yatt, Wind, [254], [258]
• Yewbarrow, [118], [190], [254]
• Z
• Zinal Rothhorn, [73]

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WASTWATER HOTEL,
WASDALE HEAD, CUMBERLAND.

This HOTEL is charmingly situated at the head of Wastwater Lake, and is the chief centre of Cumberland Climbing—the Pillar Rock, Great Gable, Great End, Scafell and the Pikes, all being within an easy walk.

The arrangements of the Hotel have been made specially to suit the requirements of Climbers and Tourists.

A First-Class DAUPHINE GUIDE and CLIMBER has been engaged, who will conduct Climbers on the various Climbs in the District at a Moderate Charge.