Rock-climbing in the English Lake District . orm and for the beauty ofthe views it offers to the climber. It is a squarepyramid in shape, and shows nearly its full height(2,949 feet) from the Wastdale level. It stands atthe head of the valley, and when seen from theshores of the lake appears completeh to shut off thevalley from all approach by the north end. Its fourmain ridges offer fairly easy walking to the north - east ridge runs down towards GreenGable, Brandreth, Grey Knotts, and the Honisterpass, a little col marking the lowest point (2,400 feet)between the peak and Green Gab
Rock-climbing in the English Lake District . orm and for the beauty ofthe views it offers to the climber. It is a squarepyramid in shape, and shows nearly its full height(2,949 feet) from the Wastdale level. It stands atthe head of the valley, and when seen from theshores of the lake appears completeh to shut off thevalley from all approach by the north end. Its fourmain ridges offer fairly easy walking to the north - east ridge runs down towards GreenGable, Brandreth, Grey Knotts, and the Honisterpass, a little col marking the lowest point (2,400 feet)between the peak and Green Gable. A moderatepath leads the pedestrian from Borrowdale up byway of Aaron Slack towards this little pass, which isknown as Wind Gap, and then bears up towardsGreat Gable. The pass may be crossed into Ennerdaleand a rough descent taken to the Liza stream. The north-west ridge leads down towards Kirk-fell. The broad depression between the twomountains is known as Beckheacl (2,000 feet). It isoften marshy in the neighbourhood of the diminutive. GREAT GABLE 115 Beckhead Tarn. A wire fence that adorns thesummit-ridge from Kirkfell can be followed for somedistance up Gable. Thence to the summit is some-what craggy, but not difficult for pedestrians. The south-west ridge is called the Gavel Neese(Gable Nose), showing from Wastdale Head as arounded grassy shoulder leading directly towardsthe peak. Up this shoulder we may make theshortest ascent of Gable from Wastdale, avoiding theeasy crags of White Napes that face us where theupper limit of the grass is passed, by skirting roundthe screes on the left. An ancient path with thestrange name of Moses Sledgate leads up GavelNeese till the level of Beckhead is nearly reached,and then bears away on a traverse over the screesround to the middle of the Ennerdale side of themountain, there to lose itself in the wilderness ofstones tliat are bestrewn all over that desolateregion. The remaining ridge to the south-east is scarcelydefinite enough t
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