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On 20th April 1914 "The Flake" on the Central Buttress of Scafell was climbed by Siegfried Herford, George Sansom and Cecil (commonly known as Charles) Holland to provide the link for a complete ascent of the buttress – this was completed on 22nd April.

The ascent of Central Buttress, or more often known as CB, was a major achievement and one of a succession of such events in the history of British rock climbing...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=6302

In reply to UKC Articles:

Is that UKC's own John Wilkinson (jcw)? He can't really have done CB in the 1940's, can he? John??

Wonder if any of Mabel Barker's relatives were there. Wish I had been; sounds like a great event.

jcm

In reply to johncoxmysteriously:
Peter Moffat - standing on the very left of the first photo in the article - told me he had first climbed it in 1939!

In reply to Stephen Reid - Needlesports:

Good grief - how old is he?!

jcm

In reply to johncoxmysteriously:

89 according to the article so he must have been 14!

In reply to Removed User:

Would be believable with Peter - quietly gets on and does things.

Interesting collection and age range of folk - 4 for the ascentionists of CB on the centenary were under 30 - shows climbing embraces all ages.