Great achievement, and great tragedy will be more I trust, however, that this brief record of great effort, Written documents do not agree in facts and dates. It has been difficult to avoid them, for all the These or other friends, they will communicate with I hope if any inaccuracies are detected by Those of his friends who have so quickly and generouslyĪided me with the materials at their disposal,Įspecially to Mr. Weeks of a busy life, too few to do justice to my The request of Jones’ most intimate friends I haveĬompiled it in the scanty leisure moments of a few I feel I owe a word of apology to the readers of thisīrief and inadequate memoir of a dead friend. The kindness of several friends for much valuable We are glad to avail ourselves of this opportunity of acknowledging Jones, will, we are sure, be welcomed by all as a valuable Crook, which is accompanied by an excellent portrait Response to the request of several climbing friends, two appendices,īringing the book up to date, have been added. Of some of the other climbs nothing had been written, so, in New climbs have been made, most of which have been writtenĪbout by the author, and are here found just as they left his pen. Since the first edition appeared in 1897, several important Invaluable work, induced us to make arrangements for the Jones’ book on ‘Rock-climbing in the English Lake District,’Īnd further numerous enquiries for copies of this unique and The rapid exhaustion of the first edition of Mr. Illustrations in Collotype, Ten Outline Plates of With a Memoir and Portrait of the Author, Thirty-one Full-page Images of the original pages are available through ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROCK-CLIMBING IN THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT***Į-text prepared by Anita Hammond, Wayne Hammond,Īnd the Online Distributed Proofreading Teamįrom page images generously made available by Title: Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of theĬountry where you are located before using this ebook. Under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this You may copy it, give it away or re-use it This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United StatesĪnd most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no Depending on the conditions, the situation is, at best, only slightly better than in the largely avoided Corridor.The Project Gutenberg eBook of Rock-climbing in the English Lake District, by Owen Glynne Jones The Project Gutenberg eBook, Rock-climbing in the English Lake District, Ice-fall from the serac zone on the edge of the summit plateau is possible at ANY TIME. “owever, we’d like to draw your attention to increased dangers: This route has also become significantly more threatened in recent years. After a series of accidents involving ice-fall in the Corridor, it developed into the normal route after 1980. “This obvious route was established very late. On its Voie du Guardien route information page, Schweizer Alpine Club SAC urges caution due to changing conditions in recent years. According to the cantonal police, other mountaineers present were evacuated successfully.Ī local Swiss paper said that the deceased climbers included a 40-year-old French woman and a 65-year-old Spaniard. Seven helicopters from Air Zermatt, Air Glaciers, and Rega and “about forty Swiss rescuers” responded to the incident. Ron Klaassen reported via Facebook that the ice detached above 17 climbers. Rescue operators confirmed that a serac collapse at 3,400m killed two mountaineers and injured nine on the Voie du Guardien. Still, serac danger threatened climbers on the route, and today the inevitable occurred. After serac collapses effectively closed the previous Le Corridor approach to the summit ridge, the alternative Voie emerged. For several decades, climbers considered the Voie du Guardien route on the Pennine Alps’ Grand Combin (4,314m) relatively safe.
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