Rock-climbing in the English Lake District: Third EditionJones, Owen Glynne
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Rock-climbing in the English Lake District: Third Edition
Jones, Owen Glynne
Lake District (England) -- Description and travel; Mountaineering; Rock climbing -- England -- Lake District
1897 Lötschenlücke
Mönch
Mönchjoch
Eiger
Aig. d’Argentière
Aig. Moine (traverse)
Aig. Tacul (traverse)
Col du Midi
Portiengrat } In one day
Weissmies }
Fletschhorn } In one day
Laquinhorn }
1898 In winter: From Grindelwald to Rosenlaui by the
Wetterhorn-Sattel, Finsteraarjoch, and Strahlegg
Two Drus (attempted traverse)
Big Dru
Grèpon (traverse)
Dent de Requin
Aiguille du Chardonnet
Aiguille du Midi
Mont Maudit
Mont Blanc (traverse)
Aiguille du Géant
Two Drus (traverse)
Riffelhorn
Wellenkuppe and Gabelhorn
Lyskamm and Castor
Alphubel, Rimpfischhorn, and Strahlhorn
Allalinhorn
Dent Blanche by South Arête
Täschhorn by Teufelsgrat
Dom, Täschhorn, and Kienhorn, descending by Teufelsgrat
1899 Riffelhorn } In his
Pollux } first five days
Breithorn (traversed from Schwarzthor) } at Zermatt
Six chief points of Monte Rosa }
Matterhorn
Cols d’Hérens and Bertol
Petite Dent de Veisivi } In 12 hours
Grande ” } from Kurhaus
Dent Perroc } Hotel and back
Aig. de la Za (by face)
Aig. Rouges (traverse of all peaks)
Mt. Blanc de Seilon in one day
Dent des Bouquetins
Mt. Collon
Pigne d’Arolla
Dent Blanche (West Arête attempt)
I cannot pretend that this list is perfect, and the brief notes I
append are intended rather to give in a small space some of the
points of human interest in the above bald list of names than for his
mountaineering friends, to whom anything that could be printed here
could convey little or nothing that was new.
It is a coincidence that he commenced his acquaintance with the Alps
in the very valleys--Ferpècle and Arolla--in which he spent the last
days of his life, and down which his friends mournfully escorted his
body eight years later. It was on one of the Dents de Veisivi (the
Petite Dent) that, in 1898, Professor Hopkinson, one of Jones’ numerous
climbing friends, met his death with his two daughters and his son.
As we walked down the Arolla valley the day before he fell from the
Dent Blanche, Owen Jones was chatting, with a wonderful freshness of
recollection of detail, of his climb up the Grand Combin during his
first season in the Alps, and I believe the guide who led him up then
was one of the search party from Evolena who found his body on the
rocks of the Dent Blanche.
The earlier climbs of 1892 were described by him in a paper entitled
‘The Dom Grat and the Fletschhorn Ridge,’ which appeared in the _Alpine
Journal_ in 1898. A brief quotation from his own account will give some
idea of the easy vivacity of his style.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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