Ingleborough – Paragon of the Yorkshire Dales
Ingleborough was the nearest ‘proper’ mountain to my childhood home and the first over 2,000 feet that I ever climbed. I was twelve years of age and took the bus to Ingleton one very wet winter Sunday. I didn’t see a thing all day and my primitive waterproofs were wholly inadequate, yet the sodden experience did not put me off, and repeating that ascent became a regular feature of my teenage years. Now fifty years later, it was a hill…
