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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.
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Guide to nearly 1000 winter climbs in the English Lake District, ranging from classic high-mountain gullies and buttresses to frozen watercourses and icefalls. Covers all the known venues, with routes at all levels of difficulty from Grade I to Grade VI and above.
Acknowledgments
Maps and diagrams in this guide
Location map
Map key
Editor’s note
Conditions
Winter ethics
Winter climbing styles
Where to climb?
Equipment
Winter grades
Dry tooling grades
Using this guide
First ascents or first claims?
Oxendale
Bowfell
Langdale Pikes
Dow
The Old Man Of Coniston
Wetherlam
Tilberthwaite and The Slate Quarries
Little Narrow Cove
Scafell Massif
Scafell
Scafell Pike
Lingmell
Mosedale
Western Wasdale
Mirklin Cove
Mirk Cove and Wind Gap Cove
Pillar
Gable South
Gable North
Kirk Fell
Honister Pass
Fleetwith Pike – North Face
Warnscale Bottom
Birkness Combe
Bleaberry Combe
Grasmoor
Newlands
Coledale
Whinlatter
Borrowdale East
Great End Area
Borrowdale West
Skiddaw
Blencathra (Saddleback)
Carrock Fell
Helvellyn
Nethermost Cove
Ruthwaite Cove
Cock Cove
Dollywaggon
Patterdale – East
Patterdale – West
Grisedale
Deepdale
Sleet Cove
Dovedale
Kirkstone Pass
Mardale
Blea Water
Riggindale
Whelter Bottom
Swindale
Longsleddale
Kentmere
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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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, as well as having climbed all over the world. He lives in Lancaster with his family and is a researcher at Lancaster University.
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