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Local natural stone wall is an ideal place for these daisies to grow. Captured during government sponsored walk
Common Name: Climbing Lily, Turk's cap, Superb Lily
Scientific name: Gloriosa superba
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
National Trust. Kinver Edge and the Holy Austin Rock Houses. A truly fascinating place to visit and to learn about it's place in history. Kinver, Stourbridge, Dudley in the West Midlands.
On Kinver Edge there are several rock houses that have been carved out of the soft red sandstone. The Holy Austin rock houses were inhabited until the 1960s. The most famous are the homes at Holy Austin Rock, now restored and open to visitors. There are stoves, furniture, windows and doors – all set into the sandstone, just as they were when the houses were lived in. They are also known as Martindale Caves. The house that has been renovated represents life in the 1930s.
Up to 11 families lived in the cave homes. Three levels of homes were constructed in the rock. Each had a bedroom and living area. After the last two families moved out in the 1950s the buildings fell into disrepair.
These cave people led comparatively comfortable lives, away from society and surrounded by nature: their water came from the deepest private well in Britain and the easy-to-carve sandstone made house renovations simple. It’s thought that Kinver Edge’s first inhabitants stumbled on it in the early 17th century, though official records date from 1777. “We believe quarry workers arrived in the early 1600s and were the first people to excavate,”
Nanny’s Rock and Vale’s Rock aren’t restored but they can be seen from the Rock Houses walking trail. You can climb into Nanny’s Rock, peer through the remains of the windows and wander around the five empty rooms. Was Nanny a herbalist, a potion maker, a white witch? Passed down through time, there is no explanation for this curious name.
The National Trust was given 198 acres of Kinver Edge in 1917 in memory of Thomas Grosvenor Lee, a Birmingham solicitor born in Kinver. The National Trust care for close to 600 acres of this special landscape.
Only one of the cave houses in the study area is a listed building, Vales Rock, Wolverley, Grade II, and only one is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, the restored National Trust caves at Holy Austin Rock, Kinver.
Rock-cut Dwellings on Kinver Edge.
The group of cave houses and rock cut dwellings discussed here fit into a small geographical area and all lie on or within a couple of miles of a massive sandstone escarpment called Kinver Edge. This cuts through the county boundaries of Staffordshire and Worcestershire and the parish boundaries of Kinver, Staffordshire and Wolverley and Cookley, Worcestershire.
Album: National Trust & English Heritage
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Bought the ladder from a local BL store... thought it might come in handy sometime... :D It was tricky trying to place the ladder with the small space...
Climbing the grade west of Plymouth, Michigan here CSX/CP train R203 has Chicago bound containers enroute from Montreal with ex QNS&L SD40 5408 with her huge fuel tank, leading a pair of CP 40's this day in August of 1990.
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Pentax 67, SMC 200mm f4, Fujifilm Provia 400 (RHPIII, the pre-X version), developed in Tetenal E6, IT8-calibrated & wet-mounted drumscan (scanned through PhotoMultiplier Tubes - PMTs - no CCD nor CMOS used in the light detection & digitizing process)
As can be seen by me wearing my trail running shoes I am not expericed with climbing. But with a good teacher and some grit I was able to get up the wall at sunset point park on Lookout Mountain.
We went to the sculpture place in Lessiter and we found this climbing frame except mummysaid it was a sculpture really but it looked like a climbing frame to us and it was fun.
Climbing Rescue. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.
A helicopter hovers next to a cliff above climbers in Yosemite Valley.
If you visit places like Yosemite often enough, the sight of helicopters doing rescue operations almost becomes a normal part of the experience. I saw this helicopter parked in a Valley meadow, surrounded by climbing rangers and crew, but I didn’t stop. Instead I went up the road a bit to photograph some spring trees. But soon I heard the thing take off and saw it rise up toward this face on the far side of the Valley, so I quickly swapped in a long lens and make a few photographs as it ferried climbers back and forth.
I’ve watched a few of these operations over my years visiting the park. We once witnessed a rescue off the top of a dome near Toulumne in electrical storm conditions, and a few years ago we got buzzed by a helicopter looking for a missing person in the backcountry. But the drama of “parking” the helicopter so close to the rock face caught my attention here. I kept thinking that it was great that there was no wind! If you look closely you can see a group of climbers on a ledge in the shaded vertical crack system near the right side of the photograph.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
I'm not expert on Texas railroad history, but from the little I've read up one reason the Santa Fe spun off what is now the Fort Worth and Western is that is was pretty tough stretch of railroad to run with many tough hills. We're on the branch to Cleburne here and not their mainline, but that sure seems apparent with the tracks laid right on top of the terrain and little grading. A nice pair of Ektachrome SD40-2s are nearing their destination with a good-size 506 train from Cresson.
Arriva Buses Wales VDL Cadet 2519 - DK55 FXD climbs the steep Dyserth hill as it works route 35 Circular to Rhyl.
9-25-17 Ray, AZ. Copper Basin Railway local OT1 climbs the steep hill just before arriving at the Asarco Ray Mine.
Thirty years ago. Isanai river, Shakotan, Hokkaido. The belayer should be more serious :-)
Fujica GS645 75mm F3.4, Verichrome pan developed with Microfine, scanned recently.
Ice Climbing near Ouray, Colorado - Three more images below
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GWR Prairie tank No. 5553 on the last few yards of the steep climb into Bodmin General with a China Clay train.
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"Climbing is the only cure for gravity."
My NOTES: Two things I want to do very soon. 1 - Watch the movie UP (it opened just this week here in the Philippines). 2 - Go wall climbing again, perhaps with some friends in Singapore.
Don't have any fancy strobe lights. So just used two halogen lamps to light this. One behind the figure as a back light and one right on top of it. My sister Dorothy had to hand hold the other so she gets part of the credit.
EXPLORE #148 (August 21, 2009)
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I haven't posted a fence shot in ages... mostly because I haven't been outside in ages but the weather has finally turned toward Spring and the last few days have been wonderful! :-)
These kids would climb over this fence, run and circle back and do it all over again... and again and again. They were so much fun to watch... how such a simple act of climbing over a fence could bring them so much joy! And for me too!! Happy Friday!!!
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While doing some weeding on our patio at St. Ives, on Shuswap Lake, I look up and there was this snail climbing on the rocks beside me. (22-09-13-4708)
Some people crawled and others didn't even attempt to go up but these two little monkeys had no hesitation and climbed their way to the top. And what a stunning walk it was!