DOCSLIB.ORG

Vol 3 No 11 Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Journal

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Vol 3 No 11 Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Journal Con'lmunlcatlonr rhould br addrarEcd to thc Editor, Krldwick Halln Krighloy. vc)I,. I ]:tr" 1911. No. I t. THH YoRK$HrRa RAtt{ffirnRs' finum',$su'RNAil. HnmEn tsY Sim. ANDERTOhI BRIGC;. / corf rE"rfrs. Pago -tn^, I t ortt;rncr: itttcl H$f ort . rn{ ' d.4 lr. " G; WrilTHRor, Youxe.; /'JJ 'l'lrl Ilr.:lln \Vilrri ,,.; Craunr E; Bnxsot'l I rr ()lrl 'l.rrrclss TrrE E,nrron '-39z'46 Arrl lroriut^rl GriirJe:i *63 {'li rrrlrirrg :tt. I}klcXr i .. ...'\\r" H" GRnprqwoon z69 'l'1r,. (llr,r't: oi' {},re Dragon : ilIa jorca . c. ,' irn '.,'"on,l C.'A. HILL 275 (i:rpiul; (llry'I1 iu rgrr I O l a.a n , r. Arnx*wrrnn-- Rulr: 28C] Sk:t:ts (ilr54I arrd l)orn'ka Bottorn Cave$'... ' C$rtrruERT 3:l.itsTlt{Gs r8S Su'irr:;to ( l:rvr' ;rn.rl Sorrre 0thers ,.' ... ,., Ff A.Ror,D Bno}>nrcn ?9r {-lrrlr !ioltt; 296 ( f lr ip;riirp{s ?9s Ir irrr irr:tl J,-ntrrt:,rls 304 l\'lt'rrrlrr:t-s' I Lolicla_r"s in I$I I 1r 1 ('lrrlt ,' /l /) llt'tt(:r'ctliugs .)&- 3?.6 l PHOTOORAPH.S. t ,;r pirrg . 'lo [irc:r. 41.t Ghvll , " l)i]gr ".1 J Z irtir I ltothortr 't 4& (irirroler, antl ltoccier \Iiva 356 ltrx:k-eiirnhing a,t lllcley. Plats I. 2/r'n t', (, Do. clo. Plate X X. 4 I )o. rJo. Plate IIl" .., 274 I -rrgo Vicl,ori;r, lrrrrl Lnke I\,liranrar 2/6 \\ii r :t:4, Finnrr,cl e (l:rrn 3i6 G;Llva ir,ttrI l]osigt"a,rr 3r{$ 3?r r' PLA.NS. 'l'irt' (',:rvl ol' l lre' f)r1g6y11 jf '6 lilr r:l (ilrf'll C:rvr: zf{ft ISSUED YTARLY lf trltlrihcd by lhe Yorkshirc llanrhlert" Cllrh, 10. llnr L .{lrccl, l.erdr'', l)FllG[: I W() $llttl I INGS Nl I JauEs S. CanTER, The Alpine Bootmaken, l(r, SOUTH MOLTON STREET, (rsr FLOOR), LONDOII, W. Nnrlerl irr llri' Nailed in this l{tvlt, Style,. .- J. S. CARTER'S CELEBRATED CLIMBINC BOOTS. ft r9 Woollen Gloves, Fileeprrg 'I'crrl'r, Woollen Anklets, Hlrclrirrg llngn, Tinted Rtl' [,,r, ku, Spectacles, trlluu. I Knives, etc., etc. l( lllrxl( iANIN(i, sKn'l'lNG nND NORWEGIAN PATTIiIiN sKl-lN(i llOO'fS n Sl)11(:lAt.t'rli. lllttrtratcd Gataloglue on Appllcatlon. ARTHUR BE.ALE, Late JOFIN BUCKINGIIAM, I94, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON, W.C., Is the Only Maker of the Celebrated ALPINE CLUB ROPE, Which is almost exclusively employed Ity the Leadirrg Mountaineers of the time. It is made of the Best \{anilla Hemp, and the nerv llope now being made, which. from tests taken (r\dnriralty proofl is one oi a much- greater lrrcaliing strain rhan formerly, is marked by three red worsted t[reads, one in the centre of each strand, to distinguish it fronr otbers on thc nlarket, anri not one thread only in the centre of the l{ope rs herctofore (see the Report of the Speciai Committee on I{opes, eti., irr Vol. r. No. 7, of rhe ALPINE JOURNAL). Each lengih is tied with Iied 'l'ape bearing my Narne. Beware of 'fraudulent lmitations, ARTHUR BEALE (late John Buckingham), 194, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W.C. Ice-axes by English and Foreign Makers kept in Stock; Riicksacks, Belts, Slings, etc. Price List on Application. (;,\l,lN(; (iltYt.t.. l'ltolo. hy (. llntling:;. THE t0tlrsltlre Ramblers' ctub Journat TOg. III. 19rr. No. rr. b ROMANCE AND EFFORT. Bv G, WlNrnnop Youuc. llt tpohcn by him ,in toasting the Cl,ub at its Annual Dinner,) )lu t6th Noacmber, tgro.) lb ny mincl, and I hope to yours, the hour immediately uPon on excellent dinner, amid mbst delightful alrotrld be consccrated to cofiee and contemplation. gilHplvor would clescribe our condition as one of poetic lpn-our lricnds might call it by another name. Lt€ttc€ it is rcpose-and repose is not consonant with €htr*etlon of making an after-dinner speech. Upon lf Occaaion our characteristically British King, IV,, callccl emphatically on Sleep, gentle Sleep, loft nurse ldm i edding a quite reasonable protest against which his author forced upon him,- My poorest subjects ft thh hour nrloop t lf thl poorolt, then what is to be said of the of cwekoning, through the drowsiness of dessert HPty dlrhor, the richest subject of all, the subject of I &untrlil " ? I know well that I am supposed to be thr Rnrnblerr' Club, but I count it among the $lUuror thEt hove fallen to me in life to be attached, ftqulrrly, to your Club ; and since I cannot regard 6IgUr u exhtlng apart from the mountains, I shall il lnoludr the prrt ln the whole, and delay your * r lcw momonh whllc wlrhing e health to thc ilt€ilrt rnd thr wlldort of thcm I 234 The Yorkshire Ratnblers' CIub lournal. Ramance and Efort. 235 My friend Mr. Claud Schuster, in a charming speech to his Land of Counterpane. Was there ever a man who loved you last year, to which, in the parlance of newspaper coires- the mountains as we all love them-progressively, and did pondence, " my attention has just been called," had the not want to climb them-progressively ? Even Ruskin audacity to pillory me as typical of a presumably inferior scaled the Feils and only discovered the greased-poliness of class of mountaineers, one which cares only for the difficulty the Gr6pon because the Gr6pon was not then every and danger of climbing, and whose taste is dulled to the mountaineer's money : as a poor epicure might argue:- more subtle charms of mountain beauty and atmosphere. " How glorious to drink the brown beer of British peaks, Now in the first place I do not think such a difierentiation because we can all afford to get outside it; but the exists. In the second place, if it did, Mr. Schuster could man who unseals the red champagne of Chamonix rocks not claim that he or I belong exclusively to either section is a wastrel and an acrobat !." of it. Why, for his part, when I first met him, he was You probably know well enough what Ruskin and Shelley spurring an exhausted guide in furious progression along the and ,iEschylus and Wordsworth and Stevenson and the other extreme crest of the Egginer-grat ! And, for my part, if I prophets of Peak and Open Air have had to say, but perhaps cannot claim to follow him, in anything but my admiration, on you will allow me to illustrate my point from a few less likely his annual literary discursions and discussions about the sources. I have chosen them myself at random, from memory. remoter purlieus of Mont Blanc, I can count upon his in- Who more unlikely to seek danger for its own sake than dulgence towards my one modest dedication at the shrine prosaic Livy ? And yet Livy knew all about the qualities o{ Mountain Romance. of avalanche snow. Listen to him, in old Philemon Holland's But having dissociated Mr. Schuster personally {rom his translation, describing " the slabbery snow-broth that melts glittering pose, I shall have pleasure in showing you on " and relents about our heels." what a fallacy its brilliance is based. What is the charm What of Roger Ascham, the first of serious-minded of my5fsly or beauty if we are forbidden to attempt to pedagogues ? He had a very poor opinion of your mere penetrate or possess it ? What is the use of a mountain walker: " Walking alone into the field hath no token in it, but to go up it ? Why, when our nascent strength and " a pastyme lyke a simple man which is neither flesh nor appreciation have sampled the glories of smooth curve and " f,she." yielding slope, is our manhood to refrain from fathoming Sir Philip Sydney, the gallant gentleman of all time, is the rare secrets, the richer inspiration of dominant precipice only sorrowful that his rock-climbing days are over: and untrodden summit ? No ! A true mountaineer can The rocks which were of constant mind, the mark nevei be h"ppy in the hills until he has gripped the very In climbing steep, now hard refusal show. heart of their beauty, and that heart lies hidden behind the You would not expect gymnastics from Dr. the pitiless ice-wall, the hardest ribs of rock' You, gentlemen, Johnson, Lexicographer. This, however, is his argument, taken from I know, go further; you are not content until you have Rasselas, which incidentally meets Mr. Schuster at every sounded more ominous depths, and taken your auguries of point. The Prince is protesting against crossing the hills : happy scrambling from the very entrails of the hills ! " I have been told," he says, " that respiration is difficult To my mind, and my assumption is no less legitimate, " upon lofty mountains, yet from these precipices it is the problem-climber is the real poet. He is the truest mystic " very easy to fall; therefore I suspect that from any height whose imagination can create for him all Monte Rosa in " where life can be supported there may be danger of too a Snowdon boulder just as a child, the only genuine ; " quick descent." " Nothing," replied the artist (who is romanticist, fashions a Himalaya finer than all fact from clearly Dr. Johnson), " nothing will ever be attempted if all 4b The Yorhshire Ramblers' Clwb Journal,. IIt Romance and Efort. n7 " possible objections must be first overcome." A very ti earliest speculations were directed towards the discovery sound mountaineering pirilosophy ! oI .'fl, routes-that must clearly To avoid fatiguing you I will only refer in passing to t exist-up the impossible rocks in the photograph.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Chamonix Expedition Course
    CHAMONIX EXPEDITION COURSE 2022 COURSE NOTES CHAMONIX EXPEDITION COURSE NOTES 2022 COURSE DETAILS Dates: Private course, available on demand Duration: 6 days Departure: ex Chamonix, France Price: €4,200 for 1:1 guide to climber ratio €2,600 for 1:2 guide to climber ratio Work your way up to bigger goals. Photo: Olivier Baron Welcome to Adventure Consultants’ Chamonix Expedition Course. This high-quality course is the perfect stepping stone to high expedition peaks and ideal for climbers looking to start tackling the Seven Summits. Introducing you to a wide array of techniques and fine-tuning existing skills, you’ll develop the pre-requisites for going higher than you ever have before. Based out of the climber’s paradise of Chamonix At the end of the course, participants will have in the French Alps, our 6-day Chamonix Expedition gained the skills to tackle more committing multi- Course has been designed by Adventure day ascents, either guided or on their own. Consultants to equip you with the essential skills and techniques to take your climbing to the next level and begin tackling major ascents. SKILLS COVERED Let our experienced guides help you navigate your way towards safe and successful climbing practices, • Snow-craft and ice-craft with a special focus on expedition climbing to set • Rope skills applicable to alpine and expedition you on your way towards your mountain objectives. climbing • Rescue techniques and emergency shelters With a strong focus on practical experience, the • Glacier travel and self-rescue skills course is directed toward fit and motivated people • Route finding and navigation who have some background in the outdoors.
    [Show full text]
  • Note on the History of the Innominata Face of Mont Blanc De Courmayeur
    1 34 HISTORY OF THE INNOMINATA FACE them difficult but solved the problem by the most exposed, airy and exhilarating ice-climb I ever did. I reckon sixteen essentially different ways to Mont Blanc. I wish I had done them all ! NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS FIG. 1. This was taken from the inner end of Col Eccles in 1921 during the ascent of Mont Blanc by Eccles' route. Pie Eccles is seen high on the right, and the top of the Aiguille Noite de Peteret just shows over the left flank of the Pie. FIG. 2. This was taken from the lnnominata face in 1919 during a halt at 13.30 on the crest of the branch rib. The skyline shows the Aiguille Blanche de Peteret on the extreme left (a snow cap), with Punta Gugliermina at the right end of what appears to be a level summit ridge but really descends steeply. On the right of the deep gap is the Aiguille Noire de Peteret with the middle section of the Fresney glacier below it. The snow-sprinkled rock mass in the right lower corner is Pie Eccles a bird's eye view. FIG. 3. This was taken at the same time as Fig. 2, with which it joins. Pie Eccles is again seen, in the left lower corner. To the right of it, in the middle of the view, is a n ear part of the branch rib, and above that is seen a bird's view of the Punta lnnominata with the Aiguille Joseph Croux further off to the left.
    [Show full text]
  • Proceedings of the Association. Annual General Meeting, 1937
    PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 1937. The fifteenth Annual General Meeting was held on April 29th, 1937, the chair being taken by the President, Mr. Walter Barrow. After the minutes of the last General Meeting had been read and confirmed, reports given by the Hon. Secretary, Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Librarian and Hon. Organiser of Meets were adopted, and Officers and Committee for the ensuing year elected. The new President, Mr. M. Tatham, was then introduced by Mr. Barrow and welcomed by the members. After an interval for refreshments, a number of very attractive lantern slides illustrating the Easter Meet at Coniston, which were very highly appreciated, were shown by Mr. J. A. Best. DINNER. The fourth biennial Dinner was held at the Grand Hotel on March 16th, 1937. The President, Mr. Walter Barrow, was in the chair, and the total attendance was 120. The guests of the Association included the following : Professor T. Bodkin, M.A., D.Litt, M.R.I.A.; Mr. N. E. Odell, representing the Alpine Club and Alpine Ski Club; Mr. W. M. Roberts, O.B.E. (British Members of the Swiss Alpine Club); Mr. A. L. Bill (Climbers' Club); Mr. R. Hope (Fell and Rock Climbing Club); Miss R. Hale (Ladies' Alpine Club); Miss E. Worsley Lowe (Pinnacle Club); Mr. J. R. Jenkins (Rucksack Club); Mr. J. E. MacLaren (Scottish Mountaineering Club); Mr. D. W. D. Showell (University of Birmingham Mountaineering Club); Mr. F. Lawson Cook (Wayfarers' Club) and Mr. J. M. Davidson (Yorkshire Ramblers' Club). The toast of "The Guests and Kindred Clubs" was proposed by Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Pinnacle Club Jubilee Journal 1921-1971
    © Pinnacle Club and Author All Rights Reserved PINNACLE CLUB JUBILEE JOURNAL 1921-1971 © Pinnacle Club and Author All Rights Reserved THE PINNACLE CLUB JOURNAL Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Published Edited by Gill Fuller No. 14 1969——70 © Pinnacle Club and Author All Rights Reserved THE PINNACLE CLUB OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE 1971 1921-1971 President: MRS. JANET ROGERS 8 The Penlee, Windsor Terrace, Penarth, Glamorganshire Vice-President: Miss MARGARET DARVALL The Coach House, Lyndhurst Terrace, London N.W.3 (Tel. 01-794 7133) Hon. Secretary: MRS. PAT DALEY 73 Selby Lane, Keyworth, Nottingham (Tel. 060-77 3334) Hon. Treasurer: MRS. ADA SHAW 25 Crowther Close, Beverley, Yorkshire (Tel. 0482 883826) Hon. Meets Secretary: Miss ANGELA FALLER 101 Woodland Hill, Whitkirk, Leeds 15 (Tel. 0532 648270) Hon Librarian: Miss BARBARA SPARK Highfield, College Road, Bangor, North Wales (Tel. Bangor 3330) Hon. Editor: Mrs. GILL FULLER Dog Bottom, Lee Mill Road, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. Hon. Business Editor: Miss ANGELA KELLY 27 The Avenue, Muswell Hill, London N.10 (Tel. 01-883 9245) Hon. Hut Secretary: MRS. EVELYN LEECH Ty Gelan, Llansadwrn, Anglesey, (Tel. Beaumaris 287) Hon. Assistant Hut Secretary: Miss PEGGY WILD Plas Gwynant Adventure School, Nant Gwynant, Caernarvonshire (Tel.Beddgelert212) Committee: Miss S. CRISPIN Miss G. MOFFAT MRS. S ANGELL MRS. J. TAYLOR MRS. N. MORIN Hon. Auditor: Miss ANNETTE WILSON © Pinnacle Club and Author All Rights Reserved CONTENTS Page Our Fiftieth Birthday ...... ...... Dorothy Pilley Richards 5 Wheel Full Circle ...... ...... Gwen M offat ...... 8 Climbing in the A.C.T. ...... Kath Hoskins ...... 14 The Early Days ..... ...... ...... Trilby Wells ...... 17 The Other Side of the Circus ....
    [Show full text]
  • Mountaineering War and Peace at High Altitudes
    Mountaineering War and Peace at High Altitudes 2–5 Sackville Street Piccadilly London W1S 3DP +44 (0)20 7439 6151 [email protected] https://sotherans.co.uk Mountaineering 1. ABBOT, Philip Stanley. Addresses at a Memorial Meeting of the Appalachian Mountain Club, October 21, 1896, and other 2. ALPINE SLIDES. A Collection of 72 Black and White Alpine papers. Reprinted from “Appalachia”, [Boston, Mass.], n.d. [1896]. £98 Slides. 1894 - 1901. £750 8vo. Original printed wrappers; pp. [iii], 82; portrait frontispiece, A collection of 72 slides 80 x 80mm, showing Alpine scenes. A 10 other plates; spine with wear, wrappers toned, a good copy. couple with cracks otherwise generally in very good condition. First edition. This is a memorial volume for Abbot, who died on 44 of the slides have no captioning. The remaining are variously Mount Lefroy in August 1896. The booklet prints Charles E. Fay’s captioned with initials, “CY”, “EY”, “LSY” AND “RY”. account of Abbot’s final climb, a biographical note about Abbot Places mentioned include Morteratsch Glacier, Gussfeldt Saddle, by George Herbert Palmer, and then reprints three of Abbot’s Mourain Roseg, Pers Ice Falls, Pontresina. Other comments articles (‘The First Ascent of Mount Hector’, ‘An Ascent of the include “Big lunch party”, “Swiss Glacier Scene No. 10” Weisshorn’, and ‘Three Days on the Zinal Grat’). additionally captioned by hand “Caution needed”. Not in the Alpine Club Library Catalogue 1982, Neate or Perret. The remaining slides show climbing parties in the Alps, including images of lady climbers. A fascinating, thus far unattributed, collection of Alpine climbing.
    [Show full text]
  • Accidents, 1949 245
    ACCIDENTS, 1949 245 • • ACCIDENTS, 1949 THE climbing season of I949 was notable for fine weather and dry con­ ditions similar to those of I 94 7. Snow disappeared from rock faces which, like the final cone of the Hasli Jungfrau peak of the Wetterhorn, are very rarely exposed ; the glaciers showed bare ice even up to the level of Io,ooo ft. in some cases ; they were greatly crevassed, and so shrunken that it was often difficult to gain the flanks above their edges ; mountain faces and aretes were unusually free of snow~ arid the exposure of rotten tock caused innumerable stonefalls. The fine weather, the many new or enlarged huts, and the facilitation of the approaches by marked paths or even by cable lifts, attracted cro,vds of inexperienced tourists to the higher mountains, but it was noticeable that the propor­ tion of serious climbers was small. In these circumstances, the heavy death-roll which we have to lament was to be expected. The greatest ultimate cause of the fatal accidents was undoubtedly inexperience ; the most common immediate cause seems to have been stonefall ; but there were many instances of pure ' accident,' such as the disaster at Cham­ onix when the collapse of the lower part of the Tour glacier cost the lives of a number of innocent visitors. Another remarkable disaster was that caused by an unexpected storm on Mont Blanc on August I 1 ; and at the other extreme of chance, there were many curious causes of fatality, as in the case of a climber who unroped on the Dome de Roche­ fort and lost his balance whilst changing his shirt.
    [Show full text]
  • The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
    The Confessions of Aleister Crowley The Confessions of Aleister Crowley www.Empirical-Academy.com Forward "It seemed to me that my first duty was to prove to the world that I was not teaching Magick for money. I promised myself always to publish my books on an actual loss on the cost of production --- never to accept a farthing for any form of instruction, giving advice, or any other service whose performance depended on my magical attainments. I regarded myself as having sacrificed my career and my fortune for initiation, and that the reward was so stupendous that it made the price pitifully mean, save that, like the widow's mite, it was all I had. I was therefore the wealthiest man in the world, and the least I could do was to bestow the inestimable treasure upon my poverty-stricken fellow men. I made it also a point of absolute honour never to commit myself to any statement that I could not prove in the same sense as a chemist can prove the law of combining weights. Not only would I be careful to avoid deceiving people, but I would do all in my power to prevent them deceiving themselves. This meant my declaring war on the spiritualists and even the theosophists, though I agreed with much of Blavatsky's teachings, as uncompromisingly as I had done on Christianity." file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Doc/Desktop/venomous-magick.com/members/confess/pdf cover.htm (1 of 2) [10/4/2004 5:52:45 PM] The Confessions of Aleister Crowley CONTENTS PART ONE: Towards the Golden Dawn {29} Chapter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
    [Show full text]
  • Wildlife Impacts Associated with the Proposed Upgrades to the Trans-Canada Highway (Park Bridge to Brake Check): Preliminary Design Considerations
    OSIRIS WILDLIFE CONSULTING STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS Wildlife Impacts Associated with the Proposed Upgrades to the Trans-Canada Highway (Park Bridge to Brake Check): Preliminary Design Considerations Prepared for: Darcy Grykuliak, P.Eng. Lead Engineer, Kicking Horse Canyon Project Focus Corporation Ltd. Prepared by: W.L. Harper, M.Sc., RPBio Osiris Wildlife Consulting Victoria, BC December 15, 2004 Trans-Canada Highway Wildlife Impacts – Park Bridge to Brake Check Executive Summary This highway design project consists of upgrading, redesigning and relocating 5.5 km of the Trans-Canada Highway adjacent to the Kicking Horse River 12 to 17 km east of Golden, British Columbia. The environmental analysis in this report addresses potential wildlife impacts and their mitigation at a level appropriate to the preliminary design stage of the highway project. With appropriate mitigation measures in place, it is unlikely there will be measurable negative impacts on wildlife populations associated with direct mortality from animal- vehicle collisions, habitat fragmentation from barriers to animal movement, direct loss of habitats to the project footprint, or cumulative effects associated with other wildlife impacts in the area. Although the exact nature of the appropriate mitigation measures required cannot be determined until the detailed design stage, there are a number of reasonable and tested mitigation techniques available. Minor modifications to drainage culverts and concrete roadside barriers should address small animal concerns, and the bridge and tunnel system, if properly designed, should address large animal concerns. Although the faster design speed and straightening of curves in the project area means vehicle traffic speed will increase with completion of the project, a combination of mitigation measures, possibly including wildlife exclusion fencing, can mitigate these impacts of direct mortality.
    [Show full text]
  • Les Clochers D'arpette
    31 Les Clochers d’Arpette Portrait : large épaule rocheuse, ou tout du moins rocailleuse, de 2814 m à son point culminant. On trouve plusieurs points cotés sur la carte nationale, dont certains sont plus significatifs que d’autres. Quelqu’un a fixé une grande branche à l’avant-sommet est. Nom : en référence aux nombreux gendarmes rocheux recouvrant la montagne sur le Val d’Arpette et faisant penser à des clochers. Le nom provient surtout de deux grosses tours très lisses à 2500 m environ dans le versant sud-est (celui du Val d’Arpette). Dangers : fortes pentes, chutes de pierres et rochers à « varapper » Région : VS (massif du Mont Blanc), district d’Entremont, commune d’Orsières, Combe de Barmay et Val d’Arpette Accès : Martigny Martigny-Combe Les Valettes Champex Arpette Géologie : granites du massif cristallin externe du Mont Blanc Difficulté : il existe plusieurs itinéraires possibles, partant aussi bien d’Arpette que du versant opposé, mais il s’agit à chaque fois d’itinéraires fastidieux et demandant un pied sûr. La voie la plus courte et relativement pas compliquée consiste à remonter les pentes d’éboulis du versant sud-sud-ouest et ensuite de suivre l’arête sud-ouest exposée (cotation officielle : entre F et PD). Histoire : montagne parcourue depuis longtemps, sans doute par des chasseurs. L’arête est fut ouverte officiellement par Paul Beaumont et les guides François Fournier et Joseph Fournier le 04.09.1891. Le versant nord fut descendu à ski par Cédric Arnold et Christophe Darbellay le 13.01.1993. Spécificité : montagne sauvage, bien visible de la région de Fully et de ses environs, et donc offrant un beau panorama sur le district de Martigny, entre autres… 52 32 L’Aiguille d’Orny Portrait : aiguille rocheuse de 3150 m d’altitude, dotée d’aucun symbole, mais équipée d’un relais d’escalade.
    [Show full text]
  • Mount Robson Provincial Park, Draft Background Report
    Mount Robson Provincial Park Including Mount Terry Fox & Rearguard Falls Provincial Parks DRAFT BACKGROUND REPORT September, 2006 Ministry of Environment Ministry of Environment BC Parks Omineca Region This page left blank intentionally Acknowledgements This Draft Background Report for Mount Robson Provincial Park was prepared to support the 2006/07 Management Plan review. The report was prepared by consultant Juri Peepre for Gail Ross, Regional Planner, BC Parks, Omineca Region. Additional revisions and edits were performed by consultant Leaf Thunderstorm and Keith J. Baric, A/Regional Planner, Omineca Region. The report incorporates material from several previous studies and plans including the Mount Robson Ecosystem Management Plan, Berg Lake Corridor Plan, Forest Health Strategy for Mount Robson Provincial Park, Rare and the Endangered Plant Assessment of Mount Robson Provincial Park with Management Interpretations, the Robson Valley Land and Resource Management Plan, and the BC Parks website. Park use statistics were provided by Stuart Walsh, Rick Rockwell and Robin Draper. Cover Photo: Berg Lake and the Berg Glacier (BC Parks). Mount Robson Provincial Park, Including Mount Terry Fox & Rearguard Falls Provincial Parks: DRAFT Background Report 2006 Table of Contents Introduction .....................................................................................................................................................1 Park Overview.................................................................................................................................................1
    [Show full text]
  • Mountaineering Ventures
    70fcvSs )UNTAINEERING Presented to the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY by the ONTARIO LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY 1980 v Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from University of Toronto http://www.archive.org/details/mountaineeringveOObens 1 £1. =3 ^ '3 Kg V- * g-a 1 O o « IV* ^ MOUNTAINEERING VENTURES BY CLAUDE E. BENSON Ltd. LONDON : T. C. & E. C. JACK, 35 & 36 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. AND EDINBURGH PREFATORY NOTE This book of Mountaineering Ventures is written primarily not for the man of the peaks, but for the man of the level pavement. Certain technicalities and commonplaces of the sport have therefore been explained not once, but once and again as they occur in the various chapters. The intent is that any reader who may elect to cull the chapters as he lists may not find himself unpleasantly confronted with unfamiliar phraseology whereof there is no elucidation save through the exasperating medium of a glossary or a cross-reference. It must be noted that the percentage of fatal accidents recorded in the following pages far exceeds the actual average in proportion to ascents made, which indeed can only be reckoned in many places of decimals. The explanation is that this volume treats not of regular routes, tariffed and catalogued, but of Ventures—an entirely different matter. Were it within his powers, the compiler would wish ade- quately to express his thanks to the many kind friends who have assisted him with loans of books, photographs, good advice, and, more than all, by encouraging countenance. Failing this, he must resort to the miserably insufficient re- source of cataloguing their names alphabetically.
    [Show full text]
  • Alexander Burgener „König Der Bergführer“ * 10
    Alexander Burgener „König der Bergführer“ * 10. Januar 1845 und † 8. Juli 1910 im Jungfraugebiet (BE) Ausstellung Sommer 2010 und 2011 in Huteggen, Eisten im Saastal (VS) Gedenktafel Alexander Burgener Auf dem Mahnmal Mittelallalin und bei der Ruine des Elternhauses von Alexander Burgener auf der Huteggen Geboren in Saas-Fee, getauft in Saas-Grund, geheiratet in Stalden und ansässig und begraben in Eisten im Saastal Zum 100sten Todestag von Alexander Burgener dem „König der Berge“ Neben dem Hotel Huteggen, wo einst die ersten Touristen auf ihrem Weg ins hintere Saastal nächtigten, stand das Haus Alexander Burgeners. Davon ist nur noch die Ruine des Erdgeschosses erhalten. Sein Leben und seine Taten sowie sein tragischer Tod werden in einer Ausstellung in der ehemaligen Herberge „Huteck“ gewürdigt. Diese ist noch in ihrer ursprünglichen Form erhalten und wird aus einem 70-jährigen Dornröschenschlaf erweckt. Als Zeichen und Hinweis auf die Ausstellung wird das Elternhaus Alexander Burgeners im Profil markiert. Beide Gebäude sind von der neuen Kantonsstrasse aus gut sichtbar und Parkplätze sind vorhanden. Ein Gedenkhalt vor der geplanten oder nach der gelungenen Bergtour wird nachhaltig in Erinnerung bleiben. Dieser spezielle Ort eignet sich zur Beherbergung einer gemeinnützigen Stiftung. Hot. Huteck 1246m (Zimmer nebst Licht und Bedienung 2 FR., Frühstück / Café complet 1 Fr., Mittagessen Hauptmahlzeit 3 Fr. , gelobt) Zitat Baedeker‘s Schweiz 1951 Hotel Huteggen und Elternhaus von Alexander Burgener Foto Archiv G. Supersaxo Saas Fee vor 1934 Hotel Huteggen und die Ruine des Elternhauses von Alexander Burgener (Aufnahme 1985) Projekt der Gedenkausstellung 2010 / 2011 Ställe des Elternhauses von Alexander Burgener, dessen Leben und Taten in einer Ausstellung im 1.
    [Show full text]