Pillar (Lake District)
| Pillar | ||
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 Sight from the east |
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| height | 892 m | |
| location | Cumbria , England | |
| Mountains | Cumbrian Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 29 '52 " N , 3 ° 16' 46" W | |
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Pillar is one of the 214 Wainwright mountains ( Fell ) in the Lake District National Park in northern England and is assigned to the Western Fells .
The name goes back to English pillar rock 'pillar rock ' , a striking rock formation on the north side, which is counted among the birthplaces of rock climbing in the Lake District.
Pillar is the highest mountain in the Pillar group , which separates Ennerdale in the north from Wasdale in the south.
Ascent
The Pillar is normally climbed from Wasdale Head , which is easily accessible by road. The easiest route leads on a mule track to the Black Sail Pass and from there over the gently rising east ridge.
The "High Level Route", a narrow path that leads through the northern cliffs to the summit and offers the best views of Pillar Rock, is more scenic and challenging.
Those who climb the Pillar from Wasdale often combine it with Scoat Fell , Red Pike and Yewbarrow to create the “Mosedale Horseshoe”, a circular hike over the mountains of a side valley of Wasdale.
A route out of Ennerdale begins at the Black Sail youth hostel , the smallest and most remote youth hostel in England in a former shepherd's hut. The ascent then also leads over the Black Sail Pass to the summit.
Pillar rock
Pillar Rock is a large ledge on the north side that looks like a slender pillar when viewed from Ennerdale. This fact led to its name.
In the early 19th century Pillar rock was a passage in the poem The Brothers of William Wordsworth known:
You see yon precipice — it almost looks
Like some vast building made of many crags,
And in the midst is one particular rock
That rises like a column from the vale,
Whence by our Shepherds it is called, the Pillar.
Due to its independent height of more than 15 meters, Pillar Rock is also mentioned in the list of Nuttalls and is also the only point on this list that cannot be reached without climbing.
The first ascent of Pillar Rock was performed in 1826 by John Atkinson and is the first rock climb documented in the Lake District, if one does not count Samuel Taylor Coleridge's involuntary descent from Sca Fell in 1802.
Remarks
- ^ Alfred Wainwright, Chris Jesty: Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. Volume 7: The Western Fells. 2nd revised edition. Frances Lincoln, London 2009 ISBN 978-0-7112-2199-4 .
- ^ HM Kelly, JH Doughty: A Short History of Lakeland Climbing. ( Memento from March 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) In: Fell & Rock Climbing Club Journal. 1936-37.
- ^ John and Anne Nuttall: The Mountains of England & Wales. Volume 2: England Cicerone; Milnthorpe, Cumbria; 1990.