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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 53

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gup one or another with a sharp jerkwhich may produce disastrous con-sequences. Guides and very goodclimbers are liable to become care-less about the rope, for they judgeothers safety by their own senseof security. If the rope is keptstretched no one can really beginto fall, except when traverses… … rope a cease-less care, bothfor them selves and their guides andcompanions. A party of first-class rock-climbers ofexperience know what theymay venture to do, and area law unto themselves. When a horizontal tra-verse has to be made acrossvery difficult rocks, a dan-gerous situation may ariseunless…

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