16-12-2016 06:30 via theguardian.com

Powerful symbols chiselled into a shepherd's shelter

Stanage, Derbyshire On a bleak night, with a folk memory of wolves and belief in evil spirits, who wouldn’t need protection?The long flowing line of Stanage Edge is, for rock climbers, one of the world’s great crags, segmented, like a gritstone worm, into various buttresses and features, each of them named, each providing many different routes to the top, each of those – and there are hundreds – also named.I am at a buttress at the crag’s southern end known, paradox
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