THE GREENOCK TELEGRAPH

and SHIPPING GAZETTE

Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland

12 July 1899

(page 3)

TO-DAY'S BREVITES.

According to Mr Alister Crowley, of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, there are not more than twenty men in this country who know the rudiments of mountain climbing, and hence it is that so many persons are killed in the attempt to negotiate Beachy Head.