Wastwater, Victoria Hotel 1889
Photo ref:
22077
Photo ref:
22077
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Wasdale and Wastwater can be said to have seen the birth of the sport of rock climbing, and climbers from all over Britain have stayed at the local hostelries such as the Victoria Hotel. Walter Haskett-Smith's first ascent of Napes Needle on Great Gable in 1886—only three years before this photograph was taken—is widely held to be the achievement that brought the sport into being.
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