Remembrance Sunday on 

Great Gable

13th November 2005

Each year on remembrance Sunday, Fell and Rock host a gathering on the summit of Great Gable and then onto Scafell Pike to pay tribute to those Fell and Rock members who lost their lives in the great wars.  The teams that undertake rescues on the mountain, normally attend to pay their own respects along with the other 600 to 800 fell walkers that make their way to the summit.  An early start is required (9.00 a.m.) to get to the summit for 10.45 a.m.

The gathering lasts about 5 minutes in all before they all depart - a great moment of remembrance on the summit of a very beautiful mountain. 

Also see photographs of rescue undertaken the previous evening here

 

Great Gable - head of the valley with Wastwater in the foreground - 8.30 a.m.

 

 

Greta Gable in the morning sun

The snake of walkers on Gavel Neese

RAF Watersham (involved in the previous evening's rescue do a fly by for the gathering crowds

Estimate for this year 600 to 800 in freezing but clear conditions.

Team members and friends gathered on the summit

On the going down of the sun we will remember.......

 

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