Cambridge Nightclimbing
Following the success of “The Night Climbers of Cambridge” (NCOC), it seemed an obvious thing to digitise its worthy successor, the 1960s “Cambridge Nightclimbing”, first published in 1970. While the writing doesn’t quite have the same elegance of Whipplesnaith, the feats accomplished by the 1960s climbers and documented in this book are astounding, palm-sweat inducing, and well worth a read. For would-be climbers, it is the superior guidebook, although nowadays CCTV and motion sensors have severely curtailed this harmless pastime. You can also have fun trying to guess which of the protagonists ended up as an MP!
Producing this online copy was a relatively simple task compared to NCOC, involving a couple of hours with a scanner, followed by some very handy free Linux tools which did most of the hard work. A final bit of by-hand spell-checking and conversion to a suitable source format finished it off. Thanks to Alan Dickinson for his loan of the book!
And now you’ll want to get on to the book…
Read “Cambridge Nightclimbing”!
Or the alternative “all on one page” version
