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Abraham & Sons arête ascent awkward block Bowfell Broad Stand buttress cairn cave Central Gully cleft cliff climber climbing book Collier's Climb corner crack Deep Ghyll descend difficulty East Jordan easy edge Ennerdale Esk Hause face feet high feet higher finish followed foot foothold Gable Glaramara glissade hand handholds Harrison Stickle Haskett Smith holds hundred feet jammed boulder jammed stone Kern Knotts Keswick leader ledge left wall looked loose stones Lord's Rake Mickledore Morgan & Kidd Moss Ghyll mountain Napes narrow Needle notch Oblique Chimney offered party passed Pavey Ark Photos Pillar Rock Pisgah platform Rake's Progress reached recess ridge right wall rope round route s.w. G. P. Abraham safe Savage Gully Scawfell Pinnacle scrambling scree gully Shamrock shoulder side slab slip slope snow Sprinkling Tarn steep grass straight summit Tarn Thence thirty feet traverse twenty feet upper upwards vertical walk Wastdale Wind Gap yards
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