This is the very first post made in the first Anabasis Hut Book,
dated November 11th, 1962. We had secured tenancy of our Hut
at Garth Farm that year – it was often referred to as ‘The Barn’.
Weirdly, it is 60 years after the foundation of the Rucksack Club
and very nearly 60 years from today. Does anyone know what
happened to Hound’s Head Buttress? I vaguely recall reading that
it had fallen down………..
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Thank you, Dave. Neat that “the very first entry” was by Dr Chris Cowley. Later he became “The Main Man” behind Saddam Hussein’s Supergun. His boss and “Front Man”, Dr Gerald Bull, was assassinated in Belgium by The Mossad. Chris was under pressure, but reputedly warned that if anything happened to him, wife or daughter, then he would bring down “the top three in The British Government” (presumably Thatcher, Major and Hurd).
He was a Founder Member of The Anabasis, and a fine climber.
Pen Ci
Gaynor Owen is climbing the final crack on “Hound’s Head Buttress”. So called because when viewed from below it looked like a dog’s head. This fine rock-climb was blown up by the council in 1963 because it was deemed unsafe.
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