Mountain Men - 1993 - Great Gable

GREAT GABLE

After the Fairfield Horseshoe in May,when Gordon had a bad fall onto his chest, he was subsequently diagnosed as having lung Cancer, caused by working among asbestos in the York Carriage Works of British Railways.

I spite of the pain he was undergoing, he joined us for what was to be his last outing to the Lakes, in July 1993, when we did a couple more mountain walks.

In this video the three 'mountain men' accompanied by Ken Chinner, Gordon's old boss at BT, climb Great Gable, from Honister Pass.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• walking
• rambling
• Lake_District
• Simey
• Brown
• honister
• great_gable
• brandreth

[citizen6ix]

good video, specially for '93, we went up and turned back when half way up green gable due to the exact same conditions just snowier.

-adam

[DADRENO]

We had tried a year earlier and met blizzard conditions! On Brandreth we turned back. Sadly no video only a few slides. Cup final day so we spent a wet afternoon in the pub at Keswick, watching the match.

[HENRYHOBBS1]

good vid,im going to do it sunday

[Ofarim]

Good video. I walked this way 4 years later in May 1997. I stayed also in the Honister Hause YHA.