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In pictures: How much has the Lake District really changed over the years? The UK’s most visited National Park celebrates its 70th anniversary this week: these photos show how the area has changed 6 May 2021 • 12:03pm Crummock Water in 1929 was still a thought-provoking view Credit: Getty On May 9 The Lake District National Park will celebrate its 70th anniversary – in 1951 the area, which had long been championed by the likes of poet William Wordsworth and author Beatrice Potter, officially became the second ‘park of the nation,’ a month after the Peak District. The area has, in ma...

A long time ago a club for women keen on climbing in the Alps was founded as, we understand, a sub-division or annexe of the Lyceum Club in London. The usual experience of men who have climbed much rock with women is that a woman of any experience, climbing second on a rope, is usually quicker and neater than the average man in that position, and that their efficiency as leaders is not yet fully tested – which is not to say that it is rather low, but simply, that in mixed parties they have climbed in that position too seldom for their powers to be fully estimated.