Jeffcoats Pinnacle

The Peak Limestone South guide has this wonderful old sepia photo (from 1942!) of climbers on this local limestone pinnacle (“Jeffcoats Pinnacle”). The photo shows the brave male climbers at the top with the women looking up in admiration from below (actually mostly just chatting away ignoring the show offs!).

We decided to ‘re-do’ this photo albeit with the female climbers at the top and the admiring male climbers looking up in awe from below! The pinnacle has been forgotten for decades which is a shame because it’s absolutely beautiful and is a joy to climb. The hardest bit oddly was climbing the Ash tree to the left to cut down some of the overhanging branches obscuring the top of the pinnacle.

The DMC female climbers are: Judith Fidler, Jo Jennings, Cath Sinclair and Gill Radcliffe. If you wish to climb the pinnacle please ask the farmers’ permission (the Browns at Hoe Grange Farm) – they’re friendly and very positive to visitors.