NMC Guides - the 1950 1st Edition, Introduction

FOREWORD

Rock climbing in Northumberland began almost as soon as in the Lakes or Wales. The Club and the Climbers' Guide have followed later, and in their due order.

It was in the later 1890s that we tramped the moors and the Cheviot, and were delighted to find excellent climbing on a number of the unexplored crags: George Macaulay Trevelyan (now of Hallington Hall) Charles Trevelyan (now of Wallington) and myself. On WanneyCrag alone we made a dozen good ascents, including the "Skull" climb. It was a little later Mascus Beresford Heywood (of Longframlington) made with me a number of pioneer climbs on Crag Lough; and Raymond Bicknell (of Gosforth) many ascents on Simonside.

There is no nobler county than that of Northumberland, as it rolls processionally northward to the Border in great waves of coloured and historic moorland, cresting upon the skyline into sudden and surprising Crags, which crown for us the magnificent walking with admirable rock climbs. May the growing tide of northern climbers flow onward as greatheartedly.

Geoffrey Winthrop Young

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