This month’s dip into the club journals goes back 90 years to pre-war Europe, members travelled widely. One, Basil Goodfellow ‘had the exceedingly good fortune to be in New Zealand with a fortnight to spare’, his is an excellent travelogue of a region beginning to open up.
However, I’ve gone for some understated mountaineering in the Ortler area of the Eastern Alps, which had become Italian around 15 years before, previously the Ortler was the highest point of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. You can read the article here.
Locally the journal records obituaries for Morley Wood, who with A S Pigott pioneered on gritstone and beyond, ‘Once we found the Upper Tier, at the Roches, untouched except for Jeffcoat’s Chimney’.
And Maurice Linnell, who had died in an accident on Ben Nevis with Colin Kirkus. The journal includes his report of new climbs on Scafell East buttress and A S Pigott’s account of their first ascent of Narrow Slab on Cloggy.
The complete journal is available in the Archive under the About tab on the Home page, and here.