Description
Book SynopsisGuide 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.
- Scafell, Pillar, Great Gable, Newland’s Hause, Helvellyn’s eastern coves, and outliers such as Cautley Spout
- Photo topos picture the lines taken by climbs, with accompanying text describing the key route features, crux and access/descent notes
- Approach maps show the best way to access each crag
- Details on climbing with nature conservation in mind, with symbols highlighting routes that are known habitats of rare alpine plants, or within Sites of Special Scientific Interest
- Joint production with the Fell and Rock Climbing Club
- Comprehensive notes on climbing ethics, including agreed venues for dry tooling
- Includes a list of first ascents dating back to the earliest Victorian pioneers
- Accommodation listings, climbing walls, safety notes, equipment, and a complete index of routes
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Maps and diagrams in this guide Location map Map key Editor's note Introduction Conditions Winter ethics Winter climbing styles Where to climb? Equipment Winter grades Dry tooling grades Using this guide First ascents or first claims? South Lakes Langdale Oxendale Bowfell Langdale Pikes Coniston Dow The Old Man Of Coniston Wetherlam Tilberthwaite and The Slate Quarries West Lakes Eskdale Little Narrow Cove Wasdale Scafell Massif Scafell Scafell Pike Lingmell Mosedale Western Wasdale Ennerdale Mirklin Cove Mirk Cove and Wind Gap Cove Pillar Great Gable and Kirk Fell Gable South Gable North Kirk Fell Buttermere Honister Pass Fleetwith Pike - North Face Warnscale Bottom Birkness Combe Bleaberry Combe Grasmoor Newlands Coledale Whinlatter North Lakes Borrowdale Borrowdale East Great End Area Borrowdale West Northern Fells Skiddaw Blencathra (Saddleback) Carrock Fell Thirlmere East Lakes Helvellyn Massif Helvellyn Nethermost Cove Ruthwaite Cove Cock Cove Dollywaggon Patterdale and Adjacent Valleys Patterdale - East Patterdale - West Grisedale Deepdale Sleet Cove Dovedale Kirkstone Pass Far Eastern Fells Mardale Blea Water Riggindale Whelter Bottom Swindale Longsleddale Kentmere Outlying Areas The Howgills Northern Pennines Dry Tooling Routes First Ascents 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
