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You will enjoy this if you love mountain history, Lake District fells, true adventure told with humour, or the craft of climbing itself.
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Picture ten climbers in a cave on Scawfell on Christmas Day, a snowdrift for a door, discussing the year's novels while their feet go numb.
Its author, Owen Glynne Jones, is a London physics master who leads some of the steepest gullies in England. Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District first appears in 1897. Later editions add a memoir by his friend W. M. Crook and appendices that reach about 1910.
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- 1A schoolboy engineer finds his callingFree
- 2His Alpine seasons show a man in a hurry
- 3The last season ends on the Dent Blanche
- 4Home crags are the best school for the Alps
- 5Pike's Crag and Deep Ghyll teach the basics
- 6Moss Ghyll and Collier's Climb yield to daring
- 7Scawfell Pinnacle is climbed by several new lines
- 8Winter on Great End and Gable brings storms and a wrong compass
- 9The Napes, the Needle and Kern Knotts test arm and nerve
- 10From the Screes to Pillar Rock, the guide carries on after him
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A schoolboy engineer finds his calling
Owen Glynne Jones is born in Paddington in 1867, the son of a Welsh carpenter and builder. He wins prizes in science, takes a scholarship, and ranks above every other student of his year at the Central Institution.
The memoir is by W. M. Crook, who meets him at Wastdale Head at Easter 1890. They set out to climb Pillar Rock with an old guidebook. Crook has climbed with good Swiss guides, yet he has never seen anyone take to rock so easily. The slender young man balances on one foot in positions that seem almost impossible to Crook.
In 1891 Jones becomes physics master at the City of London School. He spends his holidays at Wastdale Head or Pen-y-gwrwd. He keeps small notebooks full of shorthand, dates and names, with occasional pen sketches of his routes. Those notebooks become the raw material of this guide.
Jones joins the mind of a trained scientist to the appetite of a born climber.
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- LengthAbout 104,200 words
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Questions about Escalada en roca en el Lake District inglés
What is Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District about?
It is a route-by-route guide to the crags, gullies and ridges of Cumberland, told as lively stories by pioneer Owen Glynne Jones. It also includes a memoir of his life and appendices that add later climbs.
Who was Owen Glynne Jones?
He was a London physics master, born in 1867, who became one of the finest rock climbers of his day. He made many first ascents in Wales and the Lake District and climbed widely in the Alps before his death in 1899.
What are the best-known climbs in the book?
The book covers Deep Ghyll, Moss Ghyll, Collier's Climb and Scawfell Pinnacle on Scawfell, the Gable Needle and Kern Knotts on Great Gable, and Pillar Rock with Walker's Gully.
Is it approachable for readers who do not climb?
Yes, and in fact the author wrote with walkers in mind. He tells each climb as a story with jokes, friends and weather, so you can follow the adventure without technical training.
Why did Jones write it?
He wanted to record the Lake District crags accurately, share his love of the sport and show that beginners can train on British rock before going to the Alps.
Cite this edition
Jones, Owen Glynne. Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/rock-climbing-in-the-english-lake-district.
Jones, O. G. (2026). Rock-climbing in the English Lake District. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/rock-climbing-in-the-english-lake-district (Original work published 1897)
Jones, Owen Glynne. Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/rock-climbing-in-the-english-lake-district.
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