Posts Tagged ‘Classic climbs’
Square Face – Garbh Choire of Beinn a’Bhuird – VDiff
Square Face on Beinn a’Bhuird has all the attributes of a great mountain rock route and adventure; it’s remote, in an outstanding setting, has good quality rock and most importantly features great climbing. You do need a full range of mountaineering skills for the route as you may need to navigate in or out of [...]
Snowdonia climbing – Hope 135m VDiff, Idwal Slabs, Ogwen, North Wales
Here’s another classic climb taken from ‘the laminated book of dreams’ (it’s not really laminated, that’s just how David and I refer to it after watching a Bill Bailey show. Bill was referring to the Argos catalogue, Dave and I are referring, of course, to Classic Rock by Ken Wilson). ‘Hope’ is a 3 star, [...]
An assault on Tower Ridge, Ben Nevis, Scotland
The day started early or late depending on whether or not you consider two hours to constitute a nights sleep. We left the car at four am on the dot, pausing only for Neil to check three times that the car was locked. The path from Achintee was taken at a suicidal pace as Neil [...]
Climbing book review: Classic Rock compiled by Ken Wilson
The laminated book of dreams! That’s the title that my brother David and I use to describe this climbing book. It’s not really laminated. We adopted the phrase coined by Bill Bailey, to describe the Argos catalogue, in a stand-up routine. We call it that because we use it like a weekend holiday brochure, to decide where our next mountain route adventure is going to be.
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