Keswick Climbing Wall
A great walk from the nearby town of Keswick.
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Keswick Climbing Wall Details
At 931 metres (3,054 ft) Skiddaw is the fourth highest mountain in the Lake District. Skiddaw range has a grand and majestic appearance, emphasized by the surrounding flat valleys which isolate it from other Lakeland fells. Wainwright, in his Pictorial Guide to the Lake District, describes the summit as "buttressed magnificently by a circle of lesser heights, all of them members of the proud Skiddaw family, the whole forming a splendid and complete example of the structure of mountains, especially well seen from all directions because of its isolation" The mountain structure of Skiddaw which Wainwright mentions is a network of sloping ridges. The actual summit of Skiddaw itself is a long straight ridge running from north to south with a number of lesser summits along its route. In addition to the main summit, Skiddaw also has a north top, middle top and south top, some with little difference in height. This main ridge is connected from the south east by Skiddaw Little Man, a shorter ridge with the main summit at 865 metres. From the south west there is the curving ridge that connects Ullock Pike, Longside Edge and Carl Side.
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