Remembrance Day

This photo shows the stream of people walking up Great Gable (899m/2,949 ft) to mark the two minute silence at 11.00am on the summit. In the background, you can see the line of walkers making their way over the lesser summit of Green Gable before descending to Windy Gap and starting the climb to Great Gable itself. A couple of climbers can be seen arriving from Styhead Tarn and Seathwaite. When I reached the huge rounded and stony summit, yet more peope were arriving from Wasdale to the south. In all, there were many hundreds of folk all anxious to arrive in time for 11.00am (in spite of the temperature being about -3C and feeling with wind chill like -10C). On the hour, the chatter and motion stopped abruptly, and all I could hear was the wind. 

Great Gable is the largest war memorial in the world. In 1923, it was purchased by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club and, in 1924, dedicated as a lasting memorial to twenty of its members who were killed in the First World War. A plaque stands on the summit listing their names. Each year, no matter what the weather, this act of remembrance takes place on the second Sunday in November. 

I have added extra photos of the day.