Condensations

Nathan Walker

In The First Tigers: The Early History of Rock Climbing in the Lake District (1972) Alan Hankinson describes how it came to be that in 1881 the “father of rock climbing” Walter Parry Haskett Smith first decided to go to the English Lake District; “he plumped for the point on the map where the contour lines lay thickest together”. Condensations is the result of a residency at the Armitt Museum and Library in Ambleside, Cumbria. These slow-collage-word-terrains range language, and are to be read and performed.