ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT 1935
For the first time a complete photographic record has been made of English rock-climbing. Carrying several cameras for miles bodily over the rough mountain tracks, and hauling them by ropes up perpendicular precipices hundreds of feet high, Mr. Stanley Watson and his British Mountain Guides secured pictures of the world famous cragsmen at work.
It is unsuspected by the majority of people that in Lakeland are these vast crags and up them run some of the most severe and spectacular routes to be found anywhere and that they represent in fact by no means easy training ground for the conquest of the mighty giants of the Swiss Alps and Himalayas.
In the film is featured an ascent of the notorious Napes Needle by the World's "baby" rock-climber—a child of nine, and other events which have made history in the annals of British mountaineering.
