Scrambles & Easy Climbs In The Lake District

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This is the updated 2nd edition, now in full colour. ” Scrambles & Easy Climbs in the Lake District” is about the appreciation of rock, the exhilaration of climbing, & the sheer pleasure of doing it in some of the most beautiful places on earth. By discarding the arbitrary division between scrambles & rock-climbs, the books makes its readers free to explore all the Lake District`s rocky places. This book, by two experienced rock-climbers, Jon Sparks & Judith Brown, also offers sound advice on how to get started & how to progress; routes that are safe in the wet, & those that should be saved for perfect conditions; &, where to eat, drink & sleep between the ascents. But above all you`ll find 69 routes, from scrambling Grade 1 to rock-climbing V. Diff, which explore the many faces of Lakeland rock. There is no better way to spend a Lakeland day than climbing Scafell Pike via the Esk Gorge, Thor`s Buttress & Ill Crags. ” Scrambles & Easy Climbs” offers a score of such expeditions, from valley floor to airy summit, with hands on rock almost all the way. Less arduous, but equally enjoyable, are days on valley crags like Shepherd`s or st&-alone scrambles like Cam Crag Ridge. You can clamber on sunny Pikes Crag high above Wasdale Head; potter about above the oak woods of the Duddon valley; or climb Kirk Fell the wet way, through the waterfalls of Ill Gill.