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Dangerous Dancing
After our failure on the Walker’s flank, three weeks of bad weather passed, and ideas changed. Terry King turned up, and Gordon Smith came back from Leysin. They directed their considerable charms...
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Redemption: The James Pearson Story.......Review
James Pearson is something of a veteran in rock climbing film circles these days. Having featured in several productions over the years, but usually as part of an ensemble alongside people like Hazel...
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John Porter's- One Day as a Tiger- Review
John Porter’s One Day as a Tiger-(Alex Macintyre and the birth of lightweight and fast Alpinism) is an absorbing literary hybrid that is part biography and part autobiography. Ostensibly, the reader...
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Castaways on Gritstone Island
Original Mountain Spread. Photo captioned 'Ron Fawcett on Joker's Wall at Brinham.Photo Jean Horsfall Beyond the mainstream cliffs of Derbyshire gritstone swells the dirty grey-black sea of Yorkshire...
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Bad Day at Black Crag
Chris Bonington on Black Crag classic 'Prana'.Photo-Mountain Heritage Black Crag, Borrowdale, at 4 o’clock on Saturday looks like market day in the high street. Brightly coloured groups gathered on...
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How to get killed in the Alps
Getting killed in the Alps is becoming rapidly an international mania. This is evidenced by the statistics of the Swiss Alpine Club, already quoted, showing that last year 165 tourists and guides...
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Ken Wilson....The man who gave us Mountain
I first met Ken Wilson at the foot of Pontesbury Needle, at the very spot to which Drummond, like Icarus, fell. It seemed somehow prophetic. After ticking the crag, we adjourned to the pub for a few...
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Letter to Jeanette
Coniston Fells: Original painting-Delmar Harmood-Banner 1938 Arthritis Cottage,Ambleside,Cumbria.Dear Jeanette,I am sorry...I apologise. I feel desolate. I did not mean to make you unhappy with what I...
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String of Pearls
The sun cut through the mist and our senses were blunted by the technicolour glare. The plaques of granite became a gaudy mosaic across the face, and the String of Pearls acquired a lustre to match its...
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Steve McClure's Beyond Limits....reviewed
Photo-V-PublishingThere was something about the cover shot and caption which suggested that, as climbing autobiographies go, this wasn’t going to be a Journey After Dawn or Native Stones. " The author,...
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Rusty Westmorland: King of the Wild Frontier
Rusty Westmorland standing by 'Westmorland's Cairn' built by his father and uncle above Wastwater.When he died his ashes were scattered here.Horace ‘Rusty’ Westmorland was born in Penrith, Cumberland...
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The Climber's Voice: Festival Memories
ED Drummond out on a limb at an early event:Photo Ian Smith When David Craig and I started planning the first festival on our 1987 journey to climb on the sea cliffs of Anglesey in North Wales, we...
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29/5/53........A Short Story
It is after midnight and I have been lying awake for an hour now. It’s not that I don’t want to sleep, but the cold is creeping into my bodyand I feel miserable. The eiderdown in my sleeping bag and...
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Extracts from George Sansom's Climbing Journal: 1909-10
Great Gable: Dalmar Harmood Banner 1941. (Lakeland Arts Trust)August 18th 1909: Wednesday:I walked up to the camp andBotterill said he would come up the Napes with me. Mr. Lloyd and I started up and...
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Barefoot in the Twenties
AB Reynolds climbing Murray's Route on Dow Crag-Barefoot and in winter! For many with an interest in the evolution of British mountaineering the twenties appear as an out of focus blur on the distant...
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Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place...Review
Philip Marsden’s new book explores an idea as much as it explores a country. It journeys westward through Cornwall from Bodmin Moor to Scilly, alighting on the rocky eminences where granite has boiled...
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The Pillarite Patriarch
Demar Harmood Banner: Lakeland Arts TrustThe Pillarite Patriarch, or to refer to him correctly - Rev. James Jackson, is known among Lakeland climbing historians, as the elderly gentleman who took up...
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Statement: The Ben Moon story......reviewed
Photo:Vertebrate Having recently read and reviewed Steve McClure’s Vertebrate published autobiography which I felt somewhat suffered in that it became rather repetitive due to the fact that the author...
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Long Views in the Hills
Cross Fell: Delmar Harmood Banner. "Perhaps the worst viewpoint in England' HG. Image Lakeland Arts Trust.Ever since a sparkling August dawn in 1930 when two of us, after a night on the summit, saw-...
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Alternative Slate
Photo:MaryMaryGeography mutates inhabitants: the quarrymen, generation upon generation, dug in, taking hits and diminishing the mountain for the demanded slate; day after day, lung after lung,...
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