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1 This extract from a Climbers' Club Journal contains only articles/photographs where the copyright now belongs to the Climbers' Club. It is provided in electronic form for your personal use and cannot be used for commercial profit without seeking permission from the Climbers' Club. Copyright 2010

2 No. 3. March, New Series. THE CLIMBERS' CLUB JOURNAL. \,COPYRIGHT.\ Edited by N. T. Huxley. CONTENTS. pj^oe L Abstract of Holiday By W. P. Ker 1 II. A Song of Degrees By W. P. Ker 2 III. New Climbs in Corsica.... By Geo. and Maxwell Finch 3 IV. The Narrow Stream By E. H. Y. 14 V. All this for Sixpence... By L. 18 VL A Midsummer Holiday in Norway in VII. The Mountaineer as Artist.... By G. Mallory 28 VIII. A Lithuanian Medley..... By Katharine Cox 41 IX. Notes on some Recent New Climbs in the Lake District By S. W. Herford 50 X. Lola's Philosophy.. By G. N Clark 55 XI. Mountains in Dreams. By Mrs. O'Malley 59 XII. A Lunndon Mountaineering Essay By A. L. Huxley 67 XIII. An Ascent of Snowdon in By Canon R. Camber Williams 70 XIV. A Happy New Year (without Apologies)... By J. Laycock 74 XV. The Tricouni Nail By O. Eckenstein 77 XVI. Notes on New Climbs from Bulletins XVII. Photography in Caverns By F. A. Winder 89 XVIII. Reviews 9* Published Adventures in by the Alps. HORACE MARSHALL Clio, a Muse. & SONS, Climbs in Derbyshire, 125, FLEET etc. STREET, Odd Comers E.C. in English Lakeland. The Canadian Rockies. Copies can also be obtained from GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32, Fleet Street, London. W. HEFFER & SONS, I FRANK MURRAY. Moray House, Cambridge. I Derby. HBNRY young & SONS, South Castle Street. Liverpool.

3 EDITORIAL. FROM the time when the fully winged book of pages emerged out of its chrysalis state of rolled manuscript, the presence of an editorial foreword has ceased to impose a necessary wandering in the desert as condition of arrival in the promised land. Yet to those who do not merely pick their page from the list of contents, but prefer to read resolutely from the beginning, the Editor desires to give a jostling passage into the interior pasture grounds ; whereby, through push of explanation and pull of appeal, they shall be led to envisage this, and a vista of subsequent Journals, as the more or less representative organs they purport to be. Our Journal is a structure raised on a foundation of bulletins, which contain the crude material of our corporate existence: the record of things done, of information gained and imparted, of club activities. Some of these records will aspire for promotion to the structure itself by being of new or important things well done, or of new and important suggestions well criticised. These in turn pass into another storey, so to speak; experience of climbing, walking, riding, revalued and restated by imagination in the minds of those who use those means of following " Le bon counseill de G. Chaucer " : " Forth, pilgrim, forth! Forth, beast, out of thy stal, Know thy contree, look up, thank God of al." And a third stage, of spires, toiwers, ornaments, and quaint devices, represents a third class of subject: philosophical inquiries into this state of mind, or a treatment of the adjuncts of our way of life from other points of view scientific, historical, artistic. The appeal is that all these should flow with more spontaneity to the editorial chair; that the Editor should edit rather than angle (consider, too, the time it takes him to stock his ponds, and the shyness of fish once caught); that

4 IV Editorial. members should at least help the Editor to a list of new books suitable for reviewing, which is hard to come by when, at the last moment, he recollects the need of it. And the explanation is like unto it. In the present number, whether from the narrow sweep of the Editor's net, or from the badness of last summer's weather, there are few descriptive articles, and, as a consequence, few illustrations "arising out of text." It has seemed good to supply this latter deficiency with a few independent pictures, interesting in themselves. The view of the south face of Mt. Blanc has a particular interest, owing to' the many ascents made on it recently by members of the Club. Reports of new ascents published in the first nine numbers of the Bulletin have here been collected and set out according to districts, and an index, of authors and subjects, covering thefirstthree numbers of the Journal, has been appended. It is proposed to repeat both the collection of new climbs and the indexing every third year. Verse, which was included last year by the licence of a Court Buffoon, appeals this year to that of a Versificator Regis.

5 The South Face of Mt. Blanc, seen from the Slopes of the Crammont.

6 "^'"" ' ^^==»Kf 1. M.Blanc. 9. BrouiUard Glacier. 2 M. Blanc de Courmayeur 10. A. Joseph Croux. 3. Pic Luigi Amedeo. 11. Chatelet. The SoiAhlp^eu^friMt. Blanc, sttr. tra) n tiie.sioa%s Infacfehina&'Acnmont. S. BrouiUard Ridge. 13. Fresnay Glacier. 6. A. Rouges de BrouiUard. 17. M. Rouges de feutecet. 14. A. Blanche de Peuteiet. 7. A. de Bionnassay. IS. Dames Anglaises. 8. Col de Fresnay. 16. A. Noire de Peuteret.