Mick Ryan
Trad climber
Kendal, English Lake District
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 25, 2008 - 01:32pm PT
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This morning, 25th December 2008, Stanage Edge in the Peaks.
What am I doing here?
Like the seventy-odd other climbers present, and let's face it we are odd, we are here to climb Christmas Crack, first climbed by George Bower in 1926. It's a fine English tradition on the UK's most popular cliff, followed by pints of Cumberland ale and carols in the Scotsman's Pack in Hathersage.
Larger than life Dick Turnbull was there as he has been since 1921 directing operations and Gordon McNair was there in traditional climbing garb; plus fours, tweed jacket and cap, with a traditional short-handled alpenstock - useful for dry-tooling the rounded breaks and final big flake crack. Many Father Christmasses were in attendance.
Read more....WITH PHOTOS: http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/older.html?month=12&year=2008#n45528
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