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THE ROOF CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO TRINITY Geoffrey Winthrop Young 2010 [1899]
By Young, Geoffrey Winthrop
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UK, 2010 [1899]. A modern reprint of one of the first books of mountaineering humor, of building climbing (buildering), and a rare classic of British climbing.
 
Oleander is delighted to announce the republication of the original night climbing book -- The Roof-Climber's Guide to Trinity by Geoffrey Winthrop Young. Whipplesnaith refers regularly to this book in The Night Climbers of Cambridge. Indeed, it was partly as an homage that the latter was written. This brand new edition has been produced from material kindly provided by the Winthrop-Young's family.

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young was the father of modern climbing and set new routes in the Alps, Lake District and Wales. A pacifist, he lost his leg whilst driving an ambulance in WWI but after the war continued to climb with an artificial leg and over the next few years reached the summits of the Matterhorn and Zinal Rothorn. He was president of the Climbers' Club and of the Alpine Club and it was through his efforts that the British Mountaineering Council was created in 1945.  

'It's an enjoyable jeu d'esprit and leaves one feeling admiration for the  daring of Winthrop-Young and his fellow climbers.' - The Independent Jan 2010.

'In this edition we're reproducing the full 1899 text and illustrations, as corrected by G. W-Young in his personal copy. A true parody of the 'Alpine Guides' that started to appear around the turn of the century, this narrative schematic to the 'finest view in the college Alps' is informal, amusing, informative andinspiring as well as being sophisticated, erudite and very witty.'
 
Geoffrey Winthrop Young

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Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876 – 1958) was a British climber, poet and educator, and author of several notable books on mountaineering.

Young began rock climbing shortly before his first term at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Classics and won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse two years running. While there, Young wrote a humorous college climbing guide called The Roof-Climber's Guide to Trinity, in part a parody of early alpine guidebooks, in part a useful reference work for those, like him, who were keen to clamber up Cambridge's highest spires.

During the Edwardian Period, and up until the outbreak of hostilities heralding World War I, Young made several new and difficult ascents in the Alps, including noted routes on the Zermatt Breithorn (the "Younggrat"), the west ridge of the Gspaltenhorn, on the west face of the Weisshorn, and a dangerous and rarely repeated route on the south face of the Täschhorn. His finest rock climb was the Mer de Glace face of the Aiguille du Grépon. In 1911, with H. O. Jones, he ascended the Brouillard ridge of Mont Blanc and made the first complete traverse of the west ridge of the Grandes Jorasses, and the first decent of the ridge to the Col des Hirondelles. His favoured, but not only, guide was Joseph Knubel of St Niklaus.

Winthrop Young also put up new routes on the crags of the Lake District and Wales. He was elected president of the Climbers' Club in 1913, and he organised the Pen-y-Pass gatherings that propelled the advancement of rock climbing and included such technical luminaries as J. M. Archer Thompson, George Leigh Mallory, Siegfried Herford, John Percy Farrar and Oscar Eckenstein. These parties, beginning in earnest about 1907, and sometimes reaching sixty men, women and children, flooded the hotel and overflowed into Eckenstein's miner's cabin and various tents. They came to an end in 1914.

During the war, Young was at first a correspondent for the liberal Daily News, but later, as a conscientious objector, was active in the FAU, the Friends' Ambulance Unit. He received several decorations, but on 31 August 1917 an explosion caused injuries requiring the amputation of one of his legs. After the amputation, Young walked sixteen miles in two days to avoid being captured by the Austrians. He continued alpine climbing for a number of years – using a specially designed artificial leg that accepted a number of attachments for snow and rock work – and climbed the Matterhorn in 1928.
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