Clogwyn Du'r Arddu (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈklɔɡwɨ̞n ˈdɨːr ˈarðɨ̞]; 'black cliff of the black height') is a north-facing rhyolite set of cliffs located...
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the summit station from May. The cliff faces on Snowdon, including Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, are significant for rock climbing, and the mountain was used by Edmund...
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climbing route on the rhyolite "Great Wall" of the East Buttress of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, in Wales. When English climber Johnny Dawes completed the first free...
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Hebron on Saturday 26 September 1896. On 9 April 1897 the line re-opened to Clogwyn. By June the trains were again reaching the summit. This time there were...
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The crag of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu in Wales with Indian Face (centre), which was the first-ever E9-graded route on the British system at E9 6c (British) or...
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continuous rock that contains a number of rock climbing routes (e.g. Clogwyn Du'r Arddu). crampons A pair of metal frames with spikes that can be attached...
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Clogwyn is an intermediate station on the Snowdon Mountain Railway. It is located on an exposed ridge overlooking the Llanberis Pass and Clogwyn Du'r...
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bolted. However, many others remain emphatically non-bolted, such as Clogwyn Du'r Arddu in the United Kingdom, where only traditional climbing techniques...
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Librarian, and Hardback Thesaurus), and the rhyolite mountain crags of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu (e.g. Indian Face). Dawes is remembered for intimidating traditional...
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of Crib Goch and Y Lliwedd. The cliff faces on Snowdon, including Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, are significant for rock climbing, and the mountain was used by Edmund...
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repeated BASE jumped from the top. List of sea stacks in Scotland Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, major British rock climbing venue "Facts about the Old Man of Hoy"...
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Lightning Amphitheatre and Grey Man's Path, which have been compared to Clogwyn Du'r Arddu. Climbing author David Flanagan called it "the jewel in the crown...
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most dangerous traditional climbing route, Master's Wall (E7 6b) at Clogwyn Du'r Arddu. In a later interview, Moffatt said, "At that time to be respected...
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those that engendered a highly competitive climbing environment. At Clogwyn Du'r Arddu in Wales numerous routes of a very high standard were achieved using...
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slinging natural chockstones, and later machine nuts, for protection at Clogwyn Du'r Arddu on Snowdon, and led to the modern climbing nut. 1929 : Luigi Micheluzzi [it]...
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and dragging it to Glaslyn. A large stone known as Maen Du'r Arddu, below Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, is supposed to have magical powers. Like several other sites...
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climbing areas include: El Capitan (for big wall climbing in the US), Clogwyn Du'r Arddu (for traditional climbing in the UK), Buoux, Verdon Gorge and Ceuse...
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the northern aspect is precipitous. The summit has close views of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu and Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa). Views from the summit can extend as far as...
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is named Nea. She also led on an ascent of Curving Crack on Clogwyn du'r Arddu (the Black Cliff). In 1959, she was the only woman in the team of six...
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Nant Peris (where there are park and ride facilities) and Llanberis. Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, a mountain crag in Snowdonia Dinorwic quarry, a slate climbing area...
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the finest climbs" on Dartmoor. During a week spent camping beneath Clogwyn Du'r Arddu in 1937, Cox and Hodgkin, along with Clare and Berridge Mallory (the...
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brilliant. He will always be remembered for 'Longland's Climb', on Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, in Snowdonia, the first route right up that formidable crag. It gave...
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(E4 6a) at Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, in Snowdon. The photograph was reproduced as a poster and featured on the cover of the 1989 Clogwyn Du'r Arddu Guidebook...
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Moffatt had freed a major new route he called Master's Wall E7 6b at Clogwyn Du'r Arddu). While only 28 at the time, Fawcett remarked that "I was starting...
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damage granite. Morley Wood during the ascent of Pigott's Climb on Clogwyn Du'r Arddu (North Wales) in 1926 reportedly was the first climber to use pebbles...
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Climbing!. Jack Longland described the greatest rock face in Wales, Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, as "Colin’s Cliff". Kirkus' series of new routes on "Cloggy" was...
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those that engendered a highly competitive climbing environment. At Clogwyn Du'r Arddu in Wales, numerous routes of a very high standard were achieved using...
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'The Beatnik' on Helsby, and his solo ascent of 'The Boldest' on Clogwyn Du'r Arddu marked him out as an exceptional talent. He was a member of a group...
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travelled in Wales in 1798. He made the first rock climb there of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, with Peter Bailey Williams, the first British and documented climb...
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Scafell in 1923. Pigott's Climb (VS, 5a, 1924) on the East Buttress of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu set new standards for exposure. Jack Longland wrote 'it was impossible...
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