Great End
Great End
Great End is one of the 214 Wainwright mountains mentioned ( fur ) in the northern English Lake District National Park and the northernmost summit of Scafellmassivs.
While considered Great End from the south only like a small hill appears, the only slightly differs from its surroundings, it rises seen from the north with an imposing and steep cliff from the valley of Sprinkling Tarn. Here is a popular camping place for hikers ( Fellwalker ) and rock climbers.
Alfred Wainwright wrote of Great End in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells ". This is the true Lakeland of the fur walker, the sort of terrain did calls him back time after time"
The almost 200 -meter-high north side consists of a rock wall, which is traversed by many columns (gully ), in which often until late to find in the spring snow. One of them is Cust 's Gully, which was named after a native of Yorkshire mountaineer and artist Arthur Cust, the numerous watercolors created from the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc. Cust 's Gully is classified as rock climbing first degree. For Fellwalker it represents, however, a major obstacle in the rise of Sprinkling Tarn from represents the first winter ascent by Arthur Cust 1880 is documented, although one suspects that it was him previously been able to achieve Great End in the winter in this way.
The northwest ridge of Great End leads to the pass Sty Head, which connects the valleys of Wasdale, Great Langdale and Borrowdale each other. In the southeast of the pass Esk home, from which you reach the valley Eskdale. In the south, after passing about two kilometers passes through a shallow saddle between Ill Crag and Broad Crag to England's highest mountain Scafell Pike.
From the top you have a clear view north into Borrowdale, while the panorama is dominated south from Scafell Pike. The upper regions of the numerous gullies of the north wall offer spectacular views to Sprinkling Tarn.