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Pen-y-Ghent (name of the little hill this is from) is apparently Cumbric language, sounds very Welsh. I'm going to read up on the etymology when I get the chance.
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Interested to hear... In Welsh that would mean ’head of the Ghent’ (you probably know that). What’s the Ghent, is it a river?
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AFAICT: no one agrees/knows what Ghent is. Most people are translating it as border, currently. A book on Celtic Culture cites a 1307 book, when it used to be called Penegent, and says that gent is 'heathen'.
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Wiki image reminds me of this local hill. The map shows a trail between the left peak and the middle one. In fact there is a deep vertical canyon there which could not be descended without expertise and equipment. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Castle_Peak_from_Andesite_Peak.jpg …
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“That’s not a problem!” I cheerfully explained to
@literalbanana who for some reason was being polite instead of pointing out that I was totally insane. “We can just descend along the canyon rim until we get to the vertical cliff, make our way down the groove between the >1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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… the groove in the cliff [visible directly below middle peak on photo], walk along the base of the cliff to the groove to the right of the right peak, and ascend that to return to the trail.” Surprisingly, neither of us died.
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Woah! Well I’m glad you both survived. My mother tumbled down some scree head first once — not a great idea really — and was lucky to have only broken an arm I think.
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Scree fields are particularly memorable, often exposed, high, with good views. I like them. There’s a scree field at the top of Caer Idris that we’ve bushwhacked a couple of times and I remember some cool ones in Norway.
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Yeah, the top thousand feet of Galdhøpiggen. Which was where I learned not to wear fivefingers on talus/scree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galdhøpiggen …
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I love that it is officially in Jotunheim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jötunheimr
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