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In the Alps the Alpine Hut s are placed near the start of glacier approaches, enabling an early start (an 'Alpine start'} to be made safely on glaciated terrain. The huts are usually purpose-built, wardened during the summer season, and provide meals and refreshments to walkers. In the UK the tradition is of huts providing fairly rudimentary accommodation (but superior to that of a Bothy ) close to a climbing ground; the huts are usually conversions (eg of former quarrymen's cottages, or of disused mine buildings), are unwardened, and are not open to passers-by except in emergency. Many climbing clubs in the UK have such huts in Snowdonia or in the Lake District. In additions, the 'senior clubs' often have acquired huts away from these areas. Well-known examples are:- The 'Charles Inglis Clark Memorial Hut' (the 'CIC Hut') under the northern crags of Ben Nevis - this was a purpose-built hut, high up the mountain, probably nearest in character to the Alpine huts. The Whillans memorial hut near the Roaches in Staffordshire. The 'Count House' near Bosigran in Cornwall . |
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