Helikon in History

A Study in Greek Mountain Topography

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ID10964612
AuthorsAndrew Burns (0000-0001-6868-9615, corresponding author), A R Burn
Year1949
Volume44
Pages313-323
Publication date1949-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annual of the British School at Athens (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0068-2454 • E-ISSN: 2045-2403
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s006824540001724x
OpenAlexW2321320695
LanguageEN
Citations received23
References cited1

People who walk in mountains grow accustomed to finding their movements facilitated from time to time by what the mountaineering books call ‘corridors’ or ‘high-level routes,’ in places where one might have expected nothing but large stones. There is a famous one from Zermatt to Arolla. There is a little one between Stye Head and Sea Fell, running from Skew Ghyll to the Ling Mell col above Hollow Stones. There is another—improved but not created by man—along the north face of Pillar Mountain. Of the same nature, and equally unexpected at first, are the ‘rakes’ and ledges which sometimes run right across a rock face, and assist, as one might say, the tactics of the mountaineer, just as the major high-level routes assist him in his strategy. They may even assist the faint-hearted to get off a face altogether. Or, of course, such a ledge may be upside down, and then it is not so good

Archaeology · Cartography · Face (sociological concept · Fell · Geography · Mountaineering · Nothing · Pillar · Classical Antiquity Studies · Engineering · Geology · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy

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