Rock Gym

Wolverhampton Mountaineering Club

Club magazine 1999
Here are some extracts from the excellent club
magazine. All articles are submitted by club members.

From ...Failure by Hilary Clark ...All the best books say that mountaineers turn back when they know it is prudent to do so. My moment of decision had come! Fear was rapidly dispelling the persistence that I had thought would keep me going to the summit. It was not an irrational or groundless fear that could be ignored but a horrible conviction that a fall was a real possibility. We were roped, so the fall was not likely to be long, but we were on a big mountain and lesser injuries would have mattered. I looked at the ridge and thought it over again. ...'No, I think it would not be right to go on.' .....and so we turned round and slowly plodded back down to the hut.