365:, the world's highest summit to be reached. The group walked 400 miles from Edmonton to reach Mount Robson, learning en route that Rev. George Kinney claimed to have succeeded in climbing it a few days earlier. Their own climb was interrupted so as to avoid an overnight stay on the mountain, and what was intended as a temporary retreat was followed by three days of continuous rain, causing the party to abandon their expedition. This was Hastings' only recorded excursion to North America.
384:, possessed of a "weird energy at all times which left us rather breathless". Haskett Smith spoke of his "great muscular strength, grim determination, and manual dexterity", his particular skill in step-cutting ("rapid and untiring"), and his unfailing mettle ("be the difficulty and danger what they might, non-one could wish for a stauncher comrade"). Mummery referred to his capacity for "extraordinary daring and skill", while Slingsby simply called him "a brilliant mountaineer".
227:, who in the previous year had made the fifth ascent, considered it "the greatest of this famous party's ice-climbs in the Alps. No finer exhibition of determination and skill has ever been given by any amateur party". The party's success "opened the door wider to guideless climbing" at a time when that practice was not encouraged, and in some measure resisted, by the
79:. On leaving school in 1877 he joined his father's firm where he began by learning hand wool-combing, then considered necessary for a proper understanding of worsted manufacture. As a result of his father's financial difficulties he took over the business in 1884 but soon discontinued it, later working as an insurance broker and owning a window-cleaning company.
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recalled being at the foot of Dent du Géant in 1920 when "I spied Mr
Geoffrey Hastings and worshipped. Was he not the doughtiest hero remaining from the Mummery Epoch? He did not let my expectations down. An enormous sack jutted out from between his shoulders. When he lowered it the ground shook and
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He was celebrated for producing "unimagined luxuries" from his rucksack at critical moments in a climb: Mummery spoke of "the all-producing bag of
Hastings" yielding the wherewithal for "one of those sumptuous meals with which Hastings invariably treats his companions". Sometimes the contents of the
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Although he was a good leader, he was more often second on the rope in ascent and sometimes last in descent, serving as the sheet-anchor of the line or enabled by his strength to lift up or serve as a ladder for those who followed. Mummery remarked that he "always knew how to inspire the leader with
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and, with
Priestman and Woolley, of Geitgaljartind in Lofoten. On the latter visit, as was often the case during his Norwegian expeditions, he took charge of the party's commissariat and, when camped near the head of the Ostnes Fjord, his tent was said to have "the appearance of a really first-class
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where the officer in command mobilised villagers to explore the Diamir valleys. A fortnight later, in company with Collie, Hastings returned to the Diamir glacier, but winter was now setting in and avalanches were thundering down the face of Nanga Parbat. In the words of Collie, "Hastings and I soon
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valley, to allow examination of the mountain's north face. Mummery elected that he and the
Gurkhas would recover the abandoned rucksacks and then cross to Rakhiot over a col at 6,200 metres. Hastings was suffering from a damaged heel, and the plan was that, along with Collie and the party's porters,
266:, the party re-established base camp in Diamir and from there, in mid-August, Mummery and one of the Gurkhas ascended Nanga Parbat's north-west face to more than 6,000 metres before the Gurkha's sickness forced them to return, leaving rucksacks behind them. The party then decided to move base to the
71:, in 1860, the eldest son of Charles Hastings and his wife Anne (née Armytage). His father was a commission agent dealing in locally produced cloth and later a worsted spinner on his own account. The family prospered in the 1860s and 1870s and, after a spell at Rev. Edwin Bittleston's academy near
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by the north ridge, descending by the south. This was probably his first Alpine excursion and he returned in the following year when, with Collie, Mummery and
Slingsby, he made the first ascent of the Dent du Requin (regarded as a significant event in the history of Alpine climbing) and the first
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and, augmented by
Slingsby, the same group were first to climb Scafell Pinnacle by Steep Gill. In June 1886 Haskett Smith had attracted considerable interest when he climbed Napes Needle, a free standing pinnacle on Great Gable, and in March 1889 Hastings became the second to do so. In 1891, with
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As a young man he had an appetite for all forms of physical recreation, participating in competitive rugby football and tennis, rowing, canoeing, swimming, and fell-walking. He stroked the four-oar gig boat that won the White Rose
Challenge Cup in 1886 and in August of the previous year had been
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Reaching
Rakhiot after two days, Hastings and Collie looked by telescope for traces of steps cut in the ridge offering Mummery the only feasible descent from the col. Seeing none, they assumed he had turned back. After a period of bad weather and Mummery's continued absence, they grew anxious.
128:. Slingsby was eleven years Hastings' senior and had been climbing extensively at home and abroad for more than a decade. Hastings readily absorbed the wisdom and technique Slingsby imparted during their climbs together and in March 1885 the pair attempted ascent of the unclimbed Deep Ghyll on
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Hastings' initial expedition to Norway was with
Slingsby (known internationally as the "Father of Norwegian Mountaineering") in 1889, when the pair made the first ascent of Mjolkedalspiggen and of Lodals Kaupe from the valley of Justedal, and when Hastings, climbing alone, was first to ascend
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Slingsby later recalled it was on
Istinden (which he called Kjostind) that "a few hundred feet below the summit Hastings paid me the one compliment with which he has ever honoured me, and I am very proud of it. It was in the good Yorkshire dialect in which we sons of the North are so fond of
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Like Hastings, Priestman (1865-1931) was a native of Bradford and a member of its amateur rowing club; he had lived on Toller Lane and was present at Hastings' life-saving attempt at Saltaire in 1890 (see Note 2). He was a distinguished mountaineer in his own right and a friend of
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With him in this latter endeavour was Norman Collie and, together with Robinson, they made the first ascent of Scafell's Moss Ghyll on 27 December 1892 (all previous parties attempting the climb having declared it impossible). Collie, who had learned to climb in the
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After his serious climbing days were over, Hastings gave much of his time to the cause of rowing in Bradford, teaching boys to row on the river at Saltaire. According to Haskett Smith, he was also "a devoted dancer". In 1917 he married Josephine Gregory, a niece of
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An important element in Hastings' legacy are the photographs he took during his various expeditions. Many of these are in the Alpine Club collection and provide a record which has enabled measurement of glacial retreat during the century since they were taken.
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by the grand northern arête at the head of Norangsfjord. On 3 July that year he and Hogrenning made the first ascent of Store Durmalstind, immediately followed by a traverse of Jiehkkevarri. He was back again in 1901 when he and Collie made the first ascent of
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he would transfer the camping equipment by a lower route. On 24 August Mummery and the Gurkhas set out for the col, leaving behind a stock of provisions in case they had to turn back in favour of the route followed by the others. They were never seen again.
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In 1898, he shared with Slingsby and Haskett Smith "a most successful campaign in Lyngen". He and Slingsby made the first ascent of Istinden and, with Haskett Smith and Elias Hogrenning, were the first to climb Stortind, Hringhorn, Store Jaegervasstind,
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Hastings returned alone to Diamir where on 1 September he found, undisturbed, the precautionary provisions Mummery had left behind on 24 August. For Hastings to attempt to search the glacier by himself would have been a hopeless task, and he made for
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on Skye, pointed to Hastings as one of the pioneers who established the Lake District as a mountaineering resort by demonstrating that rock climbing of every degree of difficulty could be experienced among the hills surrounding the head of
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He began rock-climbing and potholing in the early 1880s. A week after his successes at the Bradford regatta in 1885, he persuaded his brother Cuthbert Hastings to join him and their friend William Ecroyd in exploring the cavern below the
147:, and he led the first party to climb Shamrock Gully on the east side of Pillar Rock. In this latter success the party was assisted by deep snow, and in December 1890 the feat was repeated under Hastings without the aid of snow.
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The Dent du Requin had previously been known as the Aiguille de Blaitière derrière and was renamed after the 1892 ascent: the choice of the new name has been attributed both to Collie (C. A. Russell, "One Hundred Years Ago",
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Haskett Smith and Slingsby, he made the first ascent of Pillar Rock by the north face, regarded as "a remarkable feat for the period", and in the winter of 1891/2 he was in the party that first climbed the Great Gully of the
247:(8,126 metres) in the following year. Permission obtained, Collie arranged to join them and "the three musketeers" (as they had become known) sailed for Bombay in June 1895. A month later they established base camp in the
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by the steep approach to the Col des Courtes, the first time this route had been taken. Four days later they completed the first guideless ascent of the Brenva Wall route and, shortly afterwards, the second ascent of the
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According to J. P. Farrar, Mummery "never carried anything whatever on a mountain. I believe when Mummery, Collie and Hastings climbed together Hastings carried the lot": T. S. Blakeney, "Some Notes on A. F. Mummery",
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Hastings and Collie may have first climbed together on Skye, which Hastings visited with an Alpine Club expedition in 1890. They climbed together in Scotland in 1894: on the day after Collie made the first climb of
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This initiated Cuthbert into potholing, of which he became an enthusiast. He was President of the Gritstone Club (founded in 1922), a pioneer of underground flashlight photography (his picture of the interior of
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When returning from the Himalaya, Hastings failed to observe certain conditions that the Indian government had imposed on the expedition, and the resultant protests led to his resignation from the Alpine Club.
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saw that any attempt at exploration was out of the question... Slowly we descended and for the last time looked on the great mountain and the white snows where in some unknown spot our friends lay buried".
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cave system). Having made the 130 feet (40 m)-deep descent of Gavel Pot, the three successfully negotiated the upstream waterfall beyond and made their way up the "long passage" leading towards
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Alizon Ecroyd had married Slingsby in 1882. In 1896, in order to comply with the conditions of their great-uncle's will, her brother William took the surname Farrer, under which he appears in the
312:("the Mont Blanc of the North"), the highest peak of the range. By this ascent, wrote Slingsby, Hastings "opened for mountaineering what is in many respects the most delightful region in Norway".
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Some unsourced accounts state that the first ascent of Jiehkkevarre was made by Hastings and Elias Hogrenning in 1899. These presumably confuse the pair's traverse of the mountain in that year (
487:, 1 November 1890. The cousin, later Colonel John Hastings, DSO, MBE, was raised in Bradford. He commanded in France the 2nd/6th West Yorkshire Regiment, 1914-17, and was Town Commandant at
116:, but after about 500 yards (460 m) its narrowness prevented further progress. Their venture has been described as "the first extensive cave exploration in Great Britain".
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described him as "one of the finest men Bradford has produced. He was a great influence for good. He stood for everything that is wholesome and clean." His widow died in 1967.
361:, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. Their party included Arnold Louis Mumm and his Swiss guide Moritz Inderbinden who, two years earlier, had made the first ascent of
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The standards of mountaineering established by the end of the nineteenth century by Mummery, Slingsby, Hastings and Collie (called "the famous four" by their contemporary
1290:, Vol. 19 (1899), pp. 611-615; W. Brian Whalley and Anne F. Parkinson, "Visitors to 'the northern playgrounds': tourists and exploratory science in north Norway", in
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1217:, Vol. I, No. 2 (1900), p. 111, referring to Hastings leading a party of three to the summit of Raana in 1899, "ten years after his first ascent of the mountain".
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ridge by indirect routes and at one stage Hastings and Mummery climbed to a height of about 6,400 metres. Having been joined by two hillmen from the
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850:, Vol. 6, No. 19 (1930), pp. 60-62; S. A. Craven, "A History of Cave Exploration in the Northern Pennines, United Kingdom, from 1883 until 1895",
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called them "the strongest trio of English mountaineers that ever attacked a high mountain": "Mountain Sickness and its Probable Causes",
377:) have been assessed as "well ahead of those of other Britons climbing at the time and at the forefront of amateur climbing worldwide".
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320:, Storebotntind and Fornaestind. In the same year he and Hogrenning also became the first climbers to reach the highest point on the
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were authoritatively considered to be the finest climbing trio of their day and were the first to attempt to reach the summit of an
631:, Vol. 19 (1899), pp. 356-363 (ascents between 11 July and 22 August 1898) and 611-615 (ascents between 22 June and 11 July 1899).
143:, Albert Mummery and John Wilson Robinson. In 1887, with Slingsby and Haskett Smith, he made the first ascent of Needle Ridge on
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by Tower Ridge in winter conditions he repeated the ascent with Hastings: Lionel W. Hinxman, "The Castle Ridge of Carn Dearg",
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In 1894 Hastings and Mummery agreed that, if they could obtain Indian government permission to visit the relevant part of
418:. The couple lived in Welbury Drive, Manningham, until Hastings' death in February 1941, when an obituary tribute in the
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islands in August 1897, their party being the first to reach the summit of Store Svartsundtind. He then travelled to the
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Jonshorn and Raana. Thereafter he visited the country with sufficient regularity that he became fluent in Norwegian.
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Theirs was the sixth ascent of the Brenva Wall route but its accomplishment without guides established a precedent.
658:, 2000 (ed. Liss Andreassen), reproducing at pp. 68, 70 and 77 photographs taken by Hastings in the period 1897-99.
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he divulged that he made a practice of filling it with boulders to keep himself in training". He was then aged 60.
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Hastings was "always the strong man of the team", ready to act as the beast of burden for his party and, according
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Charles Hastings may have overstretched his resources in building Silsden House, which was designed for him by
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Not until 1953, after nearly thirty lives had been lost in the attempt, was Nanga Parbat eventually conquered.
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Hastings returned to Norway in 1899 when, with Slingsby and the latter's nephews, he made the first ascent of
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Norway, the Northern Playground; sketches of climbing and mountain exploring in Norway between 1872 and 1903
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Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate report on regional change of glaciers in Northern Norway.
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255:, they elected to relocate to the valley of the Diamir Glacier in order to attempt the north-west face.
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confidence by his remarks", while A. Carson Roberts, returning from a 1905 expedition with Hastings in
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for their attempt to rescue two men who drowned after being thrown from a boat that shot the weir at
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Hastings was introduced by Slingsby to a wide circle of mountain enthusiasts and began to climb with
132:: they were defeated by ice, but in March the following year they repeated the attempt with success.
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204:, reaching the summit by the unclimbed Col des Deux Aigles (which has since rarely been ascended).
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Vol. III, No. 11, was regarded as an early classic), and a student of subterranean insect life:
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He again returned to Chamonix in the summer of 1894 and, with Mummery and Collie, crossed the
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By 1885 Hastings was already exploring the Lake District with William Ecroyd's brother-in-law
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1294:, T. A. Hose (ed.), Geological Society Special Publication No. 417, London, 2016, pp. 83-94.
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321:
890:, Longmans Green & Co., London, 1897; Wm. Cecil Slingsby, "A New Ascent of Scafell",
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glacier, while the full party's exploration of the deep valley of the Strupskar and the
1273:, Vol. I, No. V, Edinburgh, 1899, pp. 197-198; C. A. Russell, "One Hundred Years Ago",
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In July 1888 he, Haskett Smith and Hopkinson made the first ascent of Great Gully on
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Eleanor Winthrop Young, "Some Memories of Cecil Slingsby and Other Mountaineers",
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In the four-oar with Hastings were his brother Cuthbert and cousin John Hastings:
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but, Mummery concluding there was little prospect of success on the south face of
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regatta. His exertions with the oar contributed to development of "the muscles of
1320:, pp. 383-386. Hastings' photograph of a snow gully on Slogen appears at p. 384.
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and "an absolute authority on the mountains and potholes of the British Isles":
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1165:, Neil Wilson Publishing, 2011, Chapter 7 ("Albert Frederick Mummery 1855-95").
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See, for example, the Norwegian Water Resource and Energy Directorate's report
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963:, David Douglas, Edinburgh, p. 247; C. A. Russell, "One Hundred Years Ago",
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and, with Collie, Mummery and C. H. Pasteur, made the first traverse of the
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1578:
Whalley and Parkinson, "Visitors to 'the northern playgrounds'", pp. 83-94.
475:, 17 July 1886. In 1890 Geoffrey and John received commendations from the
43:, and helped to lay the foundations for mountain-climbing as a sport. He,
1146:
Himalaya: The Exploration and Conquest of the Greatest Mountains on Earth
1102:, Vol. 17 (1894/5), pp. 537-551; C. A. Russell, "One Hundred Years Ago",
776:, 14 February 1884 and 8 August 1894; Census of England and Wales, 1901;
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Hastings' own accounts of his exploration in the Lyngen Alps appeared in
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Journal of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District
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When the Alps Cast Their Spell: Mountaineers of the Alpine Golden Age
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indulging when out on the fells, and was merely 'Thar't a toff un'."
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G. Hastings, "Over Mont Blanc by the Brenva Route, Without Guides",
414:, MP for Bradford East, and sister of the art publisher and patron
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first in each of the sculls, pair-oars and four-oars events at the
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Appreciating Physical Landscape, Three Hundred Years of Geotourism
984:, pp. 138-141; Norman Collie, PhD, "Climbing near Wastdale Head",
866:, 23 December 1943, quoting Ernest Roberts (first Chairman of the
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534:, 1922-30 (William Farrer (1861-1924), historian of Lancashire).
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In March 1893 Hastings and Slingsby were elected Fellows of the
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who made numerous first ascents of rock-faces and peaks in the
1085:, pp. 185-204; Lindsay Griffin, "The Alps and the Pyrenees",
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In the course of this relocation the party twice crossed the
854:, Vol. 29, No. 1, British Cave Research Association, p. 29.
392:, asked rhetorically "Was there ever a better second man?"
746:, 1861; Census of England and Wales, 1861, 1871 and 1881;
1453:, p. 172; W . Cecil Slingsby, "A New Ascent of Scafell",
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Wm. Cecil Slingsby, "New Expeditions in Norway in 1898",
907:, Longmans Green & Co., London, 1895, pp. 96 and 142.
220:'s Moine ridge, which they had believed to be unclimbed.
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Wm. Cecil Slingsby, "Mountaineering in Norway in 1899",
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Wm. Cecil Slingsby, "Mountaineering in Arctic Norway",
1064:, pp. 161-181; C. A. Russell, "One Hundred Years Ago",
1047:, pp. 140-150; C. A. Russell, "One Hundred Years Ago",
614:, Vol. 19, pp. 613-614) with Hastings' earlier ascent (
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glacier resulted in discovery of the Strupvatnet lake.
357:, who had set his sights on being the first to climb
988:, Vol. III, No. 13 (January 1894), pp. 6-8; Collie,
744:
Directory and Topography of the Borough of Bradford
961:Climbing on the Himalaya and other Mountain Ranges
1412:Unjustifiable Risk? The Story of British Climbing
1243:, p. 12; C. A. Russell, "One Hundred Years Ago",
572:Unjustifiable Risk? The Story of British Climbing
91:" for which he was renowned in climbing circles.
1479:A. Carson Roberts, "Reminiscences of La Meije",
1368:L. S. Amery, "A Month in the Canadian Rockies",
1115:J. P. Farrar, "The Brenva Face of Mont Blanc",
1381:A. L. Mumm, "An Expedition to Mount Robson",
8:
353:In August 1909 Hastings went to Canada with
1568:England and Wales Probate Calendar for 1967
905:Climbing in the British Isles - I. England
458:, 16 February 1888 and 20 September 1883;
1636:Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
1191:, David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1904, p. 139.
369:Qualities and reputation as a mountaineer
1342:C. A. Russell, "One Hundred Years Ago",
1329:C. A. Russell, "One Hundred Years Ago",
1271:The Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal
1068:, Vol. 98 (1993), p.224; Henri Isselin,
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679:Archive of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club
618:, Vol. 18, p. 65, and Vol. 19, p. 215).
439:
1646:People educated at Marlborough College
1556:Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1519:Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1385:, Vol. II, No. 2 (1909-10), pp. 1-20;
798:Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
760:Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
750:, 12 October 1876 and 14 October 1891.
300:and Hermann Woolley he climbed in the
837:, Fisher Unwin, London, 1895, p. 162.
656:Regional Change of Glaciers in Norway
509:, taken in 1905 and published in the
7:
1286:G. Hastings, "The Lyngen District",
986:Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal
550:Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal
191:In August 1892 Hastings had visited
67:Hastings was born at 2 Toller Lane,
1494:My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
1468:My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
1451:My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
1083:My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
1062:My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
1045:My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
888:Rock-Climbing in the Lake District
846:C. Hastings, "Gavel Pot in 1885",
835:My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
694:My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
454:in 1879. He was bankrupt in 1883:
308:where he made the first ascent of
108:(part of what is now known as the
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1072:, B. Arthaud, Paris, 1961, p. 90.
959:, p. 125; J. Norman Collie, FRS,
700:Text of William Cecil Slingsby's
1215:Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Journal
872:Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Journal
848:Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Journal
574:, Cicerone Press Limited, 2012).
532:Dictionary of National Biography
511:Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Journal
27:(1860–1941) was a British
1414:, Cicerone Press Limited, 2012.
702:Norway, the Northern Playground
16:English mountaineer (1860–1941)
1626:19th-century British explorers
1509:, Hogarth Press, 1989, p. 120.
1496:, pp. 152, 165, 175, 198, 251.
1427:, Vol. 9, No.3 (1933), p. 296.
1161:, pp. 175-178; Trevor Braham,
1131:, "Unclouded Days 1901-1914",
1106:, Vol. 99 (1994), pp. 231-232.
916:Jones, p. 212; Haskett Smith,
566:, Vol. 98 (1993), p. 224) and
243:, they would attempt to climb
1:
967:, Vol. 96 (1991/92), p. 221;
462:, London, 8 July 2023, p. 29.
1051:, Vol. 97 (1992/93), p. 240.
85:Bradford Amateur Rowing Club
1148:, Anova Books, 2012, p. 57.
731:The Canadian Alpine Journal
684:Text of J. Norman Collie's
75:, Geoffrey was educated at
1662:
1346:, Vol. 106 (2001), p. 206.
1333:, Vol. 104 (1999), p. 205.
1277:, Vol. 103 (1998), p. 238.
1247:, Vol. 102 (1997), p. 232.
181:Royal Geographical Society
1621:English mountain climbers
1544:Bradford Weekly Telegraph
1401:, Vol. 66 (1961), p. 403.
1089:, Vol. 98 (1993), p. 244.
1070:Les Aiguilles de Chamonix
733:, Vol. III (1911), p. 93.
725:, Vol. 53 (1941), p. 70.
601:, Vol. 44 (1932), p. 114.
485:Shipley Times and Express
396:bag were less indulgent.
1534:, Vol. 53 (1941), p. 70.
1483:, Vol. 48 (1936), p. 245
1457:, Vol. 13 (1886), p. 93.
1440:, Vol. 53 (1941), p. 70.
1372:, Vol. 42 (1930), p. 33.
1357:Climbing in the Himalaya
1307:, Vol. 19, 1899, p. 421.
1228:Climbing in the Himalaya
1178:, Vol. 53 (1941), p. 70.
1159:Climbing on the Himalaya
1135:, Vol. 62 (1957), p. 66.
1034:(London), 15 March 1893.
1020:Climbing on the Himalaya
1007:Climbing on the Himalaya
990:Climbing on the Himalaya
894:, Vol. 13 (1886), p. 93.
868:Cave Rescue Organisation
822:Bradford Daily Telegraph
773:Bradford Daily Telegraph
748:Bradford Daily Telegraph
692:Text of A. F. Mummery's
686:Climbing on the Himalaya
645:, No. 60 (1955), p. 119.
456:Bradford Daily Telegraph
405:Marriage and final years
1383:Canadian Alpine Journal
398:Dorothy Pilley Richards
1631:20th-century explorers
864:Yorkshire Evening Post
852:Cave and Karst Science
519:Yorkshire Evening Post
493:Yorkshire Evening Post
460:Antiques Trade Gazette
382:Eleanor Winthrop Young
1616:British rock climbers
1144:Philip Parker (ed.),
1005:, pp. 88-89; Collie,
969:West Cumberland Times
903:W. P. Haskett Smith,
721:W. P. Haskett Smith,
412:Sir William Priestley
1641:People from Bradford
1187:Wm. Cecil Slingsby,
517:, 23 December 1943;
477:Royal Humane Society
137:Walter Haskett Smith
69:Manningham, Bradford
63:Birth and early life
1318:Northern Playground
1258:Northern Playground
1241:Northern Playground
1202:Northern Playground
874:, Vol. 9, No. 30).
552:, Vol. III, p. 316.
521:, 23 December 1943.
416:Eric Craven Gregory
345:gipsy encampment".
77:Marlborough College
1546:, 9 November 1917.
1389:, 3 November 1909.
1119:, Vol. 26, p. 174.
213:Argentière Glacier
197:Aiguille du Grépon
884:Owen Glynne Jones
824:, 25 August 1885.
810:Yorkshire Gazette
790:Bradford Observer
780:, 8 January 1944.
778:Bradford Observer
570:(Simon Thompson,
515:Bradford Observer
473:Yorkshire Gazette
450:and decorated by
318:Store Lenangstind
264:5th Gurkha Rifles
20:Geoffrey Hastings
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1558:, 10 March 1941.
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