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    Hill hunting in Lakeland

    Sep 01, 2021 2 minutes
    Photo: MORTONS MEDIA ARCHIVE

    In an article published in May 1920, writer George D Abraham – a climber and photographer, the D standing for Dixon, born 1871, died 1965, who made photographic records of many of the pioneer climbers and wrote many books, including The Complete Mountaineer and Mountain Adventures at, among others – rather poetically lamented the wet weather blighting England as spring turned to summer.

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