Pillar (Lake District)

Pillar seen over Ennerdale away

Pillar one of the 214 Wainwright mountains is called ( fur ) in the northern English Lake District National Park and is assigned to the Western Fells.

The name goes back to " Pillar Rock ", a striking rock formation on the north side, which is generally reckoned to be the birthplaces of rock climbing in the Lake District.

Pillar is the tallest mountain in the Pillargruppe, which is bounded on the north by the Ennerdale and the south by the Wasdale.

Rise

Normally, the Pillar of Wasdale Head is mounted, which can be reached most easily by car. The easiest route is via the Black Sail Pass, connects the Wasdale and Ennerdale and from there via the east ridge rising slightly.

Scenic interesting and challenging is the "High Level Route", a narrow path that leads to the summit through the northern cliffs and offers the best views of the Pillar Rock.

If you climb the Pillar from Wasdale from him often combined with Scoat Fell, Red Pike and Yewbarrow for " Mosedale Horseshoe " - a circular walk over the mountains of a side valley of Wasdale.

Another route leads from the Ennerdale and Black Sail begins at the hostel - one of the smallest and most remote youth hostels in England - in a former shepherd's hut. The climb then also via the Black Sail Pass to the summit.

Pillar Rock

Pillar Rock is a large rocky outcrop on the north side, as viewed from Ennerdale like a slender column appears. This led to its name. In the early 19th century Pillar Rock was known by a passage in the poem The Brothers of William Wordsworth:

You see yon precipice -it almost looks Like some vast building made ​​of many crags, And in the midst is One Particular rock That rises like a column from the vale,

Its distinctive height of more than 15 meters Pillar Rock also finds mention in the list of Nuttall's and is also the only item in this list, which can not be reached without climbing.

The first ascent of Pillar Rock was made by John Atkinson in 1826 and is the first rock climbing, which is documented in the Lake District if you do not count the involuntary descent Samuel Taylor Coleridge from Sca Fell in 1802.

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