Rock-climbing in SkyeLongmans, Green, and Company, 1908 - 330 páginas |
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... EASY COURSES . The Tourist Route , Sgurr nan Gillean . * Blaven , by the South Ridge . * Gully between the Fourth Pinnacle and Sgurr nan Gillean . Gully between the First and Second Pinnacles . First Pinnacle , from Bhasteir Corrie ...
... EASY COURSES . The Tourist Route , Sgurr nan Gillean . * Blaven , by the South Ridge . * Gully between the Fourth Pinnacle and Sgurr nan Gillean . Gully between the First and Second Pinnacles . First Pinnacle , from Bhasteir Corrie ...
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... easy thing to miss the way , and unless the tourist is capable of extricating himself from rough and precipitous ground , it would perhaps be advisable to engage a guide for the ascent . In winter and early spring this Tourist Route can ...
... easy thing to miss the way , and unless the tourist is capable of extricating himself from rough and precipitous ground , it would perhaps be advisable to engage a guide for the ascent . In winter and early spring this Tourist Route can ...
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... easy indeed , and soon lands the climber on the top of the First Pinnacle . The dip between it and its second brother is very slight , and the scramble to the top is almost entirely lacking in interest . The Third Pinnacle is very ...
... easy indeed , and soon lands the climber on the top of the First Pinnacle . The dip between it and its second brother is very slight , and the scramble to the top is almost entirely lacking in interest . The Third Pinnacle is very ...
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... easy inclination will be dis- cerned below . The problem seems to be in reaching this . It is bounded on each side by a curtain of rock , that on our left continuing for some distance ; while its vis - à - vis on the right terminates ...
... easy inclination will be dis- cerned below . The problem seems to be in reaching this . It is bounded on each side by a curtain of rock , that on our left continuing for some distance ; while its vis - à - vis on the right terminates ...
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... easy inclination will be dis- The problem seems to be in reaching ounded on each side by a curtain of our left continuing for some distance ; is on the right terminates abruptly der the topmost rocks of the pinnacle . st way down is ...
... easy inclination will be dis- The problem seems to be in reaching ounded on each side by a curtain of our left continuing for some distance ; is on the right terminates abruptly der the topmost rocks of the pinnacle . st way down is ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
30 feet arête ascent Bealach Bhasteir Corrie Bidein Druim nan Blaven Bruach na Frithe buttress cairn cave chimney chock-stone Clach Glas cliff climb climbers Coire companion Coolin corner Corrie Lagan Corrie na Creiche Corrie Tairneilear crack crags crest descended difficult downward Druim nan Ramh easy face foot gabbro Glen Brittle Harland Harta Corrie height holds inaccessible Knight's Peak ledge Loch Coruisk Loch Scavaig looked Lota Corrie main ridge Mhadaidh mist mountain narrow overhanging party Peak of Bidein Pinnacle Ridge pitch reached right wall rock-climbing rope round route Scottish Mountaineering Club scrambled scree Sgurr a'Ghreadaidh Sgurr a'Mhadaidh Sgurr Alasdair Sgurr an Fheadain Sgurr Dearg Sgurr Dubh Sgurr Mhic Choinnich Sgurr nan Gillean Sgurr Sgumain Sgurr Tearlach short side Skoor Skye slab Sligachan sloping small cairn soon Sron na Ciche steep Stone Shoot straight summit terrace thence Third Pinnacle traverse upper upward vertical weather wedged
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Página 172 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward. Never doubted clouds would break. Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph. Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better. Sleep to wake.
Página 2 - The ascent of Scuir-na-Gillean was deemed impossible at the time of my first visit in 1836. Talking of it with an active forester in the service of Lord Macdonald, named Duncan Macintyre, whom I engaged to guide me to Coruisk from Sligachan, he told me that he had attempted it repeatedly without success, both by himself and also with different strangers, who had engaged him for the purpose ; but he indicated a way different from those which he had tried, which he thought might be more successful....
Página 322 - Skye ! Lovest thou mountains great, Peaks to the clouds that soar, Corrie and fell where eagles dwell, And cataracts dash evermore ? Lovest thou green grassy glades, By the sunshine sweetly kist, Murmuring waves, and echoing caves ? Then go to the Isle of Mist ! The Matterhorn's good for a fall, If climbing you have no skill in, But a place as good to make ravens' food You can find upon Scoor-nan-Gillean.
Página 316 - ... rocky beach in the strangest and most precarious situations, as if abandoned by the torrents which had borne them down from above; some lay loose and tottering upon the ledges of the natural rock, with so little security that the slightest push moved them, though their weight exceeded many tons.
Página 316 - ... we returned, and often stopped to admire the ravages which storms must have made in these recesses, when all human witnesses were driven to places of more shelter and security. Stones, or rather large...
Página 315 - The shores consisted of huge strata of naked granite, here and there intermixed with bogs, and heaps of gravel and sand piled in the empty water-courses. Vegetation there was little or none ; and the mountains rose so perpendicularly from the water edge, that Borrowdale, or even Glencoe, is a jest to them.
Página 315 - ... of torrents from these rude neighbours. The shores consisted of huge layers of naked granite, here and there intermixed with bogs, and heaps of gravel and sand marking the course of torrents.
Página 104 - Many a hearth round that friendly shore Giveth warm welcome ; Charms still are there, as in days of yore, More than of mountains ; But hearths and faces are seen no more, Once of the brightest. Many a poor black cottage is there, Grimy with peat smoke, Sending up in the soft...