Pillar Rock, Ennerdale by Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863 - 1929) [PRINTS]:Greeting Card Painted on an April morning

Painted on an April morning from a viewpoint near Stybarrow Crag

in which you saw the rock sticking out

'clouding' and creating many different textures

For the astute coffee drinker

Esk Buttress and Ill Crag rise into the mist beyond

Pillar Rock, Ennerdale by Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863 - 1929) [PRINTS]:Greeting Card Painted on an April morningPillar Rock is one of Lakelands most awesome phenomena: a finger of rock split away from the mountain overlooking one of the most remote valleys in the Lake District. The first recorded climb was in 1826 by a shepherd called John Atkinson; and three more shepherds were said to have conquered it later the same year. But it was the ascent by Lieutenant Wilson R. N., 22 years later, that was considered the birth of English rock climbing. The first