. My life among the wild birds in Spain . sudden accessof hysteric caution following on years of go as you pleaseall the upper portion of the Rock was enclosed by a high spikediron paling, some unimaginative official had the fatuity to styleit officially The Unclimbable Fence, and numerous Orderswere drafted with respect to it in which it was thus is hard to imagine a more direct challenge to a man addictedto climbing. At this psychological moment I chanced to land atGibraltar on leave from England. I climbed that fence, not forpleasure or for vanity, but as a matter of duty to th
. My life among the wild birds in Spain . sudden accessof hysteric caution following on years of go as you pleaseall the upper portion of the Rock was enclosed by a high spikediron paling, some unimaginative official had the fatuity to styleit officially The Unclimbable Fence, and numerous Orderswere drafted with respect to it in which it was thus is hard to imagine a more direct challenge to a man addictedto climbing. At this psychological moment I chanced to land atGibraltar on leave from England. I climbed that fence, not forpleasure or for vanity, but as a matter of duty to the confraternity Climbing the Unclimbable Fence 57 of birdsnesters. My crime was never taken judicial notice of,and here I was happier than the luckless private soldier, who notlong since committed the same offence and according to reportwas charged with Neglecting to obey Fortress Orders, in thathe, at Gibraltar, on April i, 190—, contrary to the FortiOrder directing all persons to abstain from doing so—climbed theUnclimbable Fence!. 58 CHAPTER V. TREE CLIMBING. A classic example—Tom Browns sound advice—The four requisites for agood tree climber—Swarming up branchless trees—Working along spread-ing, horizontal or pendent boughs—A famous Ravens tree—An awkwardclimb—The S and its difficulties—Reach the nest—Trees too large toswarm up—Value of pendent boughs in some cases—Tree climbing withropes—Use of light casting-line and lead—How to get a rope over ahigh bough—Ascending with the aid of a rope—Arrival at branches—Transition from rope work to climbing—Extra large trees—Climbing by successive stages with rope—Climbingirons—A nasty accident—Irons and ropean ideal plan—Dress for tree climbing—Uses of light line and fishing creel. HE art of tree climbing, for art it is,exists in an embryonic form in mostschoolboys. Most lads howeverdiscontinue the practice just at theage when they are developingstrength and skill enough to be-come fa
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