Ebook: Blank on the Map

Cover; Acknowledgements; Introduction; An Hour in the Smoke Room at Wastdale; A New Climb on Scafell Crags; The Doctrine of Descent; The Traverse of Scafell Crags; Scafell Central Buttress; The Great Central Buttress of Scafell; Novel Tactics on the Central Buttress, Scawfell; Scafell Central Buttress; On Scawfell; From Both Ends of the Rope; An Easy Day for a Lady?;Few climbs are awarded the honour of being reduced to their initials. CB, the Central Buttress of Scafell, considered for years to be the hardest climb in the British Isles, is one of them. ‘Have any of you ever noticed a bayonet-shaped crack descending from the skyline about midway between Moss Ghyll and Botterill's Crack on Scawfell? No? Has it never occurred to you that between these two climbs there is a stretch of nearly two hundred feet of unscaled rock? No?'- Ashley P Abraham, 1907. Despite this attempt by the president of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club to goad the younger generation int.