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The dataset generation failed
Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ParserError
Message: Error tokenizing data. C error: Expected 3 fields in line 107, saw 4
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1869, in _prepare_split_single
for key, table in generator:
^^^^^^^^^
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 609, in wrapped
for item in generator(*args, **kwargs):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/csv/csv.py", line 198, in _generate_tables
for batch_idx, df in enumerate(csv_file_reader):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py", line 1843, in __next__
return self.get_chunk()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py", line 1985, in get_chunk
return self.read(nrows=size)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py", line 1923, in read
) = self._engine.read( # type: ignore[attr-defined]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/c_parser_wrapper.py", line 234, in read
chunks = self._reader.read_low_memory(nrows)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 850, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.read_low_memory
File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 905, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._read_rows
File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 874, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._tokenize_rows
File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 891, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._check_tokenize_status
File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 2061, in pandas._libs.parsers.raise_parser_error
pandas.errors.ParserError: Error tokenizing data. C error: Expected 3 fields in line 107, saw 4
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1342, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations, partial, estimated_dataset_info = stream_convert_to_parquet(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 907, in stream_convert_to_parquet
builder._prepare_split(split_generator=splits_generators[split], file_format="parquet")
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1736, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1919, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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text string | entity string | score float64 | date string | annotator_comment string | general_location string | specific_location string | year float64 | season null | month float64 | day null | Coordinates string |
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...the oldest man alive never saw but the snow was on top of divers of those hilles, both in Summer, as well as in Winter. | snow | 8 | 1618 | No month is mentioned in this account but is included due to its historical interest | Cairngorms Other | Cairngorms | 1,618 | null | null | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
this would suggest that immediately prior to this period glaciers or permanent snowbeds extended as far as the innermost ridge. | glaciers, snowbeds | 8 | 1644 | Although no month and precise year is mentioned in this account, it is included due to historical interest | Cairngorms Other | Cairngorms | 1,644 | null | null | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
the Avin or Awen, flowing out of a small loch among the ridges of a very rugged and snow-clad mountain call Binawen | snow-clad | 8 | 1662 | null | Beinn a' Bhuird & Ben Avon | Ben Avon | 1,662 | null | null | null | (57.081248, -3.505238) |
the Avin, flowing out of a small loch among the ridges of a very rugged and snow-clad mountain called Bin Awen | snow-clad | 8 | 1662 | null | Beinn a' Bhuird & Ben Avon | Ben Avon | 1,662 | null | null | null | (57.081248, -3.505238) |
As the snow was deep and new fallen, Gordon was glad he had got company to cross the cairn; | snow, deep, fallen | 8 | -/02/1765 | null | Other Highlands | Cairn o'Mounth | 1,765 | null | 2 | null | null |
...many of them topped with perpetual snow... | perpetual snow | 9 | 1769 | Although no month is mentioned in this account, it is included due to historical interest | Other Highlands | Deeside | 1,769 | null | null | null | null |
for example in a letter dated 13th April 1793, he mentions that snow was still lying on Inverey, and no ploughing or sowing had yet been done. | snow | 7 | 13/04/1793 | null | Other Highlands | Inverey | 1,793 | null | 4 | null | null |
...there is snow to be found all the year round and their appearance is extremely romantic and truly Alpine. | snow | 8 | 1795 | Although no month is mentioned in this account, it is included due to historical interest | Cairngorms Other | Cairngorms | 1,795 | null | null | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
He repeats legends about soldiers being lost in the snow, and gives a date, 1 January, 1799, for one ghastly and circumstantial story of a party of sportsmen and stalkers being destroyed by the skeletons found long afterwards still grasping their guns. | snow | 4 | 01/01/1799 | null | Other Highlands | Forest of Gaick | 1,799 | null | 1 | null | null |
where Captain John Macpherson of Ballachroan and four attendants were overwhelmed by an avalanche of snow on the Christmas of 1799 (old style). | avalanche, snow | 8 | 25/12/1799 | Not sure where this is | Other Highlands | The Gaick (Kingussie) | 1,799 | null | 12 | null | null |
Captain John Macpherson of Ballochroan, "the Black Officer," along with four men who accompanied him to shoot deer, perished in an avalanche which descended on the bothy or hut the occupants being overwhelmed by an avalanche. | avalanche | 0 | -/01/1800 | null | Other Highlands | Gaick | 1,800 | null | 1 | null | null |
the avalanche, in the Celtic imagination, being a judgment on the Black Officer for his excess of zeal in recruiting, by which Speyside and Badenoch had been depleted of many young men. | avalanche | 0 | -/01/1800 | null | Other Highlands | Gaick | 1,800 | null | 1 | null | null |
the snow lies unmelted through the whole summer, and this singularity very soon produced a match of snowballs. | snow, unmelted | 8 | 31/08/1800 | July 14th - October 1st | Ben Nevis | Ben Nevis | 1,800 | null | 8 | null | (56.796735, -5.002927) |
the mountains above them, to the right, chequered with drifts of snow, and differing but little from it in colour; the immense rocks to the left, separated by large fissures, the safe abode of eagles; and even the precipices around, appeared to them truly majestic; nor is this saying too much, for such is the impressio... | snow, drifts | 9 | 1804 | null | Cairngorms Other | Glen Eunach | 1,804 | null | null | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
At twelve o'clock, we got up to the first snow, and, before one, we thought we were near the mouth (sic) of Glen Eunach, and then, depositing our champaign, lime, shrub, porter, etc., in one of the large snow-drifts, beneath an arch, from which ran a charming spring, we agreed to dine there. | snow, snow-drifts | 8 | 1804 | null | Cairngorms Other | Glen Eunach | 1,804 | null | null | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
On 4th January, 1805, five out of a party of seven privates of the Inverness-shire Militia, on their way through the Larig to Abernethy on furlough, perished in a severe snow-storm. | snow, storm | 2 | 04/01/1805 | null | Other Highlands | Learg an Laoigh | 1,805 | null | 1 | null | null |
perished in a severe snow-storm* | snow, storm | 2 | 04/01/1805 | null | Other Highlands | Learg an Laoigh | 1,805 | null | 1 | null | null |
it was in flood at this time, from the melting of the snow, and the late rains; and, what was most remarkable, an arch of snow covered the narrow glen from which it tumbled over the rocks. | flood, melting, snow | 7 | 17/07/1810 | null | Cairngorms Western Massif | Cairn Toul | 1,810 | null | 7 | null | (57.066582, -3.732339) |
It was in flood at this time, from the melting of the snow, and the late rains; and what was most remarkable, an arch of snow covered the narrow glen. | snow, melting | 6 | 17/07/1810 | null | Cairngorms Western Massif | Braeriach | 1,810 | null | 7 | null | (57.066582, -3.732339) |
Distant summits, robed in snow, have indeed pretensions both to beauty and sublimity; but it is only when they mingle with the kindred hues of the atmosphere, and not when opposed to their local colour, as is evinced by these eminences. | snow | 6 | 1819 | null | Beinn a' Bhuird & Ben Avon | Ben-y-Bourd (Beinn a Bhuird) | 1,819 | null | null | null | (57.081248, -3.505238) |
Many of the remarks—in his description of "Ben-y-Bourd"—are never wholly divested of snow; a circumstance which bespeaks their height, but is not any addition to their beauty. | snow | 4 | 1819 | null | Beinn a' Bhuird & Ben Avon | Ben-y-Bourd (Beinn a Bhuird) | 1,819 | null | null | null | (57.081248, -3.505238) |
the lake was frozen and covered with snow, and in crossing it the ice gave way, to nearly 200 perished. | frozen, snow, ice | 0 | 1832 | Pre 1832? | Other Highlands | Ben Ledi | 1,832 | null | null | null | null |
some of them marked by streaks of snow. | snow | 6 | Autumn 1849 | null | Other Highlands | Grampians | 1,849 | null | null | null | null |
I came on "an immense mass of snow, frozen so hard that it did not even give rise to a rill" in the same corrie on 14th August, 1850. | snow, frozen | 8 | 14/08/1850 | null | Cairngorms Western Massif | Braeriach | 1,850 | null | 8 | null | (57.066582, -3.732339) |
Snow falling heavily. | snow | 6 | 26/04/1851 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,851 | null | 4 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
Furious with drifting snow. Wind north. | drifting snow | 6 | 28/04/1851 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,851 | null | 4 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
the snow is over 2 feet deep at my door. Drifts 12 feet deep on the Cairnwell. | snow, drifts | 9 | 30/04/1851 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,851 | null | 4 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
Snow commenced to fall on the 8th current and has fallen to a good extent each day since, with a strong north wind. | snow | 7 | 18/02/1853 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,853 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
Snow still falling. | snow | 6 | 19/02/1853 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,853 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
The snow round my humble home is from 6 to 18 feet deep. | snow | 9 | 02/03/1853 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,853 | null | 3 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
No outdoor work can be done owing to so much snow. | snow | 4 | 01/04/1853 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,853 | null | 4 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
Snow has fallen less or more every day this year. | snow | 5 | 13/01/1854 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,854 | null | 1 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
Snow falling again in good earnest. | snow | 6 | 12/02/1854 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,854 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
walking through deep snow. | deep snow | 7 | 14/02/1854 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,854 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
Was walking through deep snow. | deep,snow | 8 | 14/02/1854 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,854 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
Average depth of snow 4 feet and still falling. | snow | 8 | 14/02/1854 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,854 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
I was nearly up to my middle in snow. | snow | 8 | Autumn 1858 | null | Other Highlands | Corryarrick | 1,858 | null | null | null | null |
A heavy fall of snow to-day. Our glen has a vast majestic appearance. The snow is general, about 18 inches deep—not a black speck to be seen as far as the eye can reach. | heavy,snow | 10 | 08/02/1859 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,859 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
We have now had eighteen weeks of snow and severe frost; we are all but shut up; communication cut off by deep snow. | snow,deep | 8 | 22/02/1860 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,860 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
Closed school to-day. snow, with severe frost. | snow,severe frost | 4 | 22/02/1860 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,860 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
the snow on Ben Macdhui had such a fine effect | snow | 8 | 28/09/1861 | Quote from Queen Victoria | Ben Macdui | Ben Macdui | 1,861 | null | 9 | null | (57.070696, -3.667715) |
indicated by the great sheets of snow lying in the crevices. | sheets, snow | 8 | 03/07/1863 | null | Cairngorms Western Massif | Cairn Toul | 1,863 | null | 7 | null | (57.066582, -3.732339) |
July, on which occasion snow lay for four or five days on the top of the mountains, and there was ice one-quarter of an inch thick on the margin of the Spey—leads to the opening of Glen Enich, which is filled up with a well-grown pine forest. | snow, ice | 7 | 03/07/1863 | null | Other Highlands | Glen Enich | 1,863 | null | 7 | null | null |
we lunched cooling our whisky and water from a patch of snow. | snow, patch | 7 | 03/07/1863 | null | Cairngorms Western Massif | Well of Dee | 1,863 | null | 7 | null | (57.066582, -3.732339) |
The day (October 6) was as lovely (after frost and snow on the night) as anything could be, and the whole is voted a great success. | frost, snow | 8 | 06/10/1863 | null | Lochnagar | Lock Muick | 1,863 | null | 10 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
We had a very steep side to come down, covered with snow and very slippery; I was put to it, and had to come very slow, but Lord C. Fitzroy, like a good Samaritan, kept me company. | snow, slippery | 6 | 06/10/1863 | null | Lochnagar | Lock Muick | 1,863 | null | 10 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
We had a very steep side to come down, covered with snow | snow, steep | 8 | 06/10/1863 | null | Lochnagar | Lock Muick | 1,863 | null | 10 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
Snow commenced to fall. | snow | 5 | 04/02/1864 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,864 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
...the fields of eternal snow... | eternal snow | 9 | 1864 | Although no month is mentioned in this account, it is included due to historical interest | Ben Macdui | Ben Macdui | 1,864 | null | null | null | (57.070696, -3.667715) |
the fields of eternal snow, and the deep black lakes at the foot of the precipices, are full of such associations of awe and grandeur and mystery as no other scenery in Britain is capable of arousing. | eternal, snow | 10 | 1864 | null | Ben Nevis | Ben Nevis | 1,864 | null | null | null | (56.796735, -5.002927) |
Loch Etchachan he compares with the lake near the Hospice of the Grimsel. Both scenes are alike "hard, leafless, and frozen-like". | frozen | 7 | 1864 | null | Ben Macdui | Loch Etchachan | 1,864 | null | null | null | (57.070696, -3.667715) |
...the inside of the snowpatch 'exemplified the sole pleasing peculiarity of the glacier - the deep blue tint that it assumes in the interior of crevasses... | snowpatch, glacier | 8 | 1864 | Although no month is mentioned in this account, it is included due to historical interest | Ben Macdui | Ben Macdui | 1,864 | null | null | null | (57.070696, -3.667715) |
My clothes, which had been soaking wet, were now hard and frozen over with snow. | frozen, snow | 5 | Winter 1867 | null | Lochnagar | Cairnwell | 1,867 | null | null | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
I saw I had no alternative but remain where I was for the night, which I did until 5am next morning. I knew from the state I was in, that if I allowed myself to cool down, that I would perish. I then started to dance, and continued dancing the whole night. About midnight I became very sleepy and hungry, and was sorry I... | snow | 4 | Winter 1867 | null | Lochnagar | Cairnwell | 1,867 | null | null | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
I calculated, that if I got over the hill all right, that I would be at my Father's house, in Mar Forest, by 10 pm. I also thought that if I went back to the Hotel, and the storm continued that I might not be able to cross the hill for some time, so I made up my mind if the hill could be crossed, that I would make the ... | snow | 5 | Winter 1867 | null | Lochnagar | Cairnwell | 1,867 | null | null | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
I remember, so well, of my tumbling down in the snow, then fast asleep, and the sudden fall in the dry snow almost suffocated me, which caused me to waken up, and I continued my exercise as best I could. | snow | 6 | Winter 1867 | null | Lochnagar | Cairnwell | 1,867 | null | null | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
I ran (trotted) all the way from there, in the snow, to my friends house at Croftmicken, Braemar, where George McHardy then stayed; arriving there before they were out of bed. | snow | 8 | Winter 1867 | null | Lochnagar | Cairnwell | 1,867 | null | null | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
Just then, the snow storm ceased, and the sky became clear, which enabled me to survey my position and ground, with some degree of confidence. | snow | 7 | Winter 1867 | null | Lochnagar | Cairnwell | 1,867 | null | null | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
Every 50 yards or so, there were wreathes of snow upon the road, knee deep, and being soft made walking very difficult. | snow | 4 | Winter 1867 | null | Other Highlands | Spittal of Glenshee | 1,867 | null | null | null | null |
About 4am I felt my feet beginning to get benumbed and very heavy. Just then, the snow storm ceased, and the sky became clear, which enabled me to survey my position and ground, with some degree of confidence. | snow, storm | 5 | Winter 1867 | null | Lochnagar | Cairnwell | 1,867 | null | null | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
Before reaching Ruidorrach the snow storm had increased to, what the Braemar people would have called, a 'Hurricane of Blind Drift'. | snow, storm | 3 | Winter 1867 | null | Lochnagar | Cairnwell | 1,867 | null | null | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
There was a good fall of snow on the ground, but a thaw had set in with heavy rain, so I made up my mind to call on Factor Cumming, my old master who resided at Rattray, Blairgowrie, with a view to getting his pony to ride on to the Spittal, but on calling at his house I was informed that he had died and was buried on ... | snow, thaw | 6 | Winter 1867 | null | Other Highlands | Blairgowrie | 1,867 | null | null | null | null |
fought his way through drifting snow, reached here more like death than life. | drifting, snow | 6 | 16/10/1869 | null | Lochnagar | Cairnwell | 1,869 | null | 10 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
...fighting his way through drifting snow, reached here more like death than life. | drifting,snow | 6 | 16/10/1869 | null | Other Highlands | Cairnwell | 1,869 | null | 10 | null | null |
the intense cold water, fresh from the melting snows, and the sharp angular gravel at the bottom, made this crossing quite an experience for one's poor feet. | melting, snows, cold | 3 | 20/07/1870 | null | Cairngorms Western Massif | Cairn Toul | 1,870 | null | 7 | null | (57.066582, -3.732339) |
some time was spent examining the rise and progress of the infant Dee, from its "Wells" to where it disappears under an arch of snow, and takes a breakneck leap down the great precipice. | snow | 6 | 20/07/1870 | null | Cairngorms Western Massif | Cairn Toul | 1,870 | null | 7 | null | (57.066582, -3.732339) |
The water was intensely cold, coming partly from a great mass of snow, which we had traversed on the way. | snow, cold | 8 | 20/07/1870 | null | Cairngorms Western Massif | Garbh Uisge | 1,870 | null | 7 | null | (57.066582, -3.732339) |
...the journey to and in snow all the way. | snow | 5 | 08/03/1873 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,873 | null | 3 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
...a fall of snow. | snow | 5 | 08/03/1873 | null | Cairngorms Other | Braemar | 1,873 | null | 3 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
the journey to and in snow all the way. | snow | 5 | 08/03/1873 | null | Other Highlands | null | 1,873 | null | 3 | null | null |
my foot trod the first snow. | first, snow | 5 | -/07/1877 | null | Lochnagar | Lochnagar | 1,877 | null | 7 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
Patches of snow were on the hills, which had an amphitheatre sweep. | patches, snow | 4 | -/07/1877 | null | Lochnagar | Glen Glova | 1,877 | null | 7 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
There was snow on the north side. | snow | 8 | -/07/1877 | null | Lochnagar | Lochnagar | 1,877 | null | 7 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
the last time I climbed the Clashmach was in 1877, a year in which the snows on the Grampians were very late in melting, and although it was about the end of June or the beginning of July that I crossed the hill I could see great patches of snow on the far off slopes. | snows, patches of snow | 7 | -/07/1877 | null | Other Highlands | Grampians | 1,877 | null | 7 | null | null |
this lochan was still covered with unbroken ice of the previous winter. | ice | 9 | 24/07/1879 | null | Cairngorms Western Massif | Lochan Uaine | 1,879 | null | 7 | null | (57.066582, -3.732339) |
naged to retrace our foot- steps in the snow, until, supposing ourselves out of danger of losing our way, and allured by some rocky hummocks that gave hope of shelter, we turned to the left, and eventually to rest and refresh ourselves. | snow | 8 | -/11/1880 | null | Central Highlands | Creag Meagaidh | 1,880 | null | 11 | null | (56.949668, -4.608764) |
the carpet of moss and mountain grass that lay over the firm slabs was covered with a coating of snow. | snow | 6 | -/11/1880 | null | Central Highlands | Creag Meagaidh | 1,880 | null | 11 | null | (56.949668, -4.608764) |
Through the blinding drift we managed to retrace our footsteps in the snow. | snow | 5 | -/11/1880 | null | Central Highlands | Creag Meagaidh | 1,880 | null | 11 | null | (56.949668, -4.608764) |
Avalanches are still of no infrequent occurrence in Gaick; no fewer than fifteen deer were killed in 1884 by one in Gharbh Ghaig. | avalanche | 6 | 1884 | null | Other Highlands | Gaick | 1,884 | null | null | null | null |
the snow was much blown away by the wind, the general height being lowered several inches—even the hard crust on top was broken up. | snow, blown | 4 | 22/02/1885 | Diary entry | Ben Nevis | Ben Nevis | 1,885 | null | 2 | null | (56.796735, -5.002927) |
patches of snow bore testimony to protracted winters in these parts. | patches, snow | 4 | 1885 | null | Other Highlands | Ben Achallader | 1,885 | null | null | null | null |
There was snow on the ground, and snow was also the sluices; | snow | 7 | 1885 | null | Other Highlands | Devils Staircase Kinlochleven | 1,885 | null | null | null | null |
Once started however snow fell so densely that even the road was hardly visible, yet I held on with perfect confidence. | snow, dense | 7 | 1885 | null | Other Highlands | Devils Staircase Kinlochleven | 1,885 | null | null | null | null |
I found " the Stone ", and several of his smaller neighbours, standing out of an immense field of snow, and under it water and black-looking, half-liquid mud. | field, snow | 8 | 21/06/1887 | null | Ben Macdui | Loch Etchachan Shelter Stone | 1,887 | null | 6 | null | (57.070696, -3.667715) |
the recently fallen hoar-frost glistening in all its pearly purity. | hoar-frost, frozen | 8 | 21/06/1887 | null | Cairngorms Other | Loch Avon | 1,887 | null | 6 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
the evening was, notwithstanding the proximity of large patches of snow, sultry and almost suffocating | patches, snow | 4 | 21/06/1887 | Date dervied from Queen Victoria Jubilee | Ben Macdui | Loch Etchachan at Ben Macdui | 1,887 | null | 6 | null | (57.070696, -3.667715) |
on the present occasion the snow had retreated to the shelter of the various precipices | retreated, snow | 5 | 21/06/1887 | null | Cairngorms Other | Loch Avon | 1,887 | null | 6 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
We left our retreat early next morning, and by 5 0 were at Loch Etchachan. There the wind seemed to blow from every point of the compass, and mist held. | none | 5 | 29/07/1889 | null | Ben Macdui | Loch Etchachan | 1,889 | null | 7 | null | (57.070696, -3.667715) |
At Loch Etchachan sleet was encountered, followed, 500 feet higher, by hail, which mercilessly punished our faces. | sleet, hail | 4 | 29/07/1889 | null | Ben Macdui | Loch Etchachan | 1,889 | null | 7 | null | (57.070696, -3.667715) |
the corries and precipices were draped in snow. | snow | 8 | 05/05/1890 | reference to a previous trip | Cairngorms Other | Cairngorms | 1,890 | null | 5 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
the most laggard of the mountaineers had crossed the snow banks glistening in the sun half-way up | snow | 8 | 05/05/1890 | null | Lochnagar | Mount Keen | 1,890 | null | 5 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
the surface was quite white, there being a good deal of fresh snow, with here and there hard snow slopes. | fresh, snow, hard | 7 | 01/01/1893 | Interesting comments on temperature- presumably in degrees farenheit | Beinn a' Bhuird & Ben Avon | Ben Avon | 1,893 | null | 1 | null | (57.081248, -3.505238) |
the whole Ben being almost covered with deep snow—a striking contrast to Cairngorm on the other side of the Nethy. | deep snow | 9 | 21/02/1893 | null | Cairngorms Other | Ben Bynac | 1,893 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
walking along the unbroken snow, a gigantic black object appeared to be approaching the party! The snow, driven by the wind, surrounded the huge rock, leaving a "moat"-like space at the foot of this mountain excrescence. gave an opportunity of observing the depth of the snow, which was here estimated at from 25 to 30 f... | snow | 8 | 21/02/1893 | null | Cairngorms Other | Ben Bynac | 1,893 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
the downward trudge along the snow-filled track was commenced at 1 p.m. | snow | 7 | 21/02/1893 | null | Cairngorms Other | Ben Bynac | 1,893 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
Above 2500 feet the mountain was more or less covered with snow, but the summit was practically swept bare, only a very thin icy covering being left. | snow, icy | 5 | 21/02/1893 | null | Cairngorms Other | Cairngorm | 1,893 | null | 2 | null | (57.09969, -3.6656) |
In the former glen a fierce snow storm had to be faced, while the latter was full of snow till near Rinloan. | snow, storm | 4 | 21/02/1893 | null | Other Highlands | Glen Gairn | 1,893 | null | 2 | null | null |
In the first gully all the steps were cut by Gibson, and no one, without a long training at step-cutting could have cut such a staircase of steps as was required in the ascent of this gully. | gully | 6 | 12/03/1893 | null | Lochnagar | Lochnagar | 1,893 | null | 3 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
We got to the head of this gully, which runs to within 100 feet of the top, but were stopped there by a sheer wall of smooth rock. On our left was a sloping slab some ten feet high, covered with rotten ice, leading on to the face of the cliffs, showing beyond a possible, though an exceedingly difficult, way to the top. | ice | 5 | 12/03/1893 | null | Lochnagar | Lochnagar | 1,893 | null | 3 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
was attempted on 12th March by Mr. J. H. Gibson and the writer, by a snow-gully in the east corner of the big corrie. | snow, gully | 8 | 12/03/1893 | null | Lochnagar | Lochnagar | 1,893 | null | 3 | null | (56.954291, -3.244078) |
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Raw mountaineering club journals were mined using GPT4o reasoning model to extract entities relating to snow or ice and associated locations and dates. Every single entity and their associated labels were manually verified by a human against the ground truth text to check for correctness and to repair hallucination.
Locations were then fuzzy matched by a human against broad features within the Cairngorms such as the Ben Macdui area, or mapped outside of the Cairngorm region.
Despite the curation process always enforcing the presence of a human in the loop, we do not guarantee absolute correctness across the entire dataset due to the magnitude of observations.
Summary statistics can be found in the final dataset directory. General statistics for the number of observations in the dataset are as follows:
Other Highlands: 635 Lochnagar: 514 Cairngorms Other: 383 Cairngorms Western Massif: 249 Ben Macdui: 208 Ben Nevis: 120 Beinn a' Bhuird & Ben Avon: 116 Ben Lawers: 51 Central Highlands: 42 Ben Lui: 41
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