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vimeo.com/34440652

Think several people will enjoy this whilst they nurse their New Years Eve hangover. Pete Willance, Murray Hamilton et al climbing on Foula's huge sea cliff. Featuring a cameo by Johnny Dawes.

Unsure when it was first aired, my father burnt it to DVD from an old VHS tape he had for decades.

Well worth a watch!

Good quote from Climb Shetland Forums:
"I tried to contact Pete Willance about it but with no success. I gather it wasn't a particularly happy trip. It was all the idea of a young lass who somehow got obsessed with it despite being not much of a climber. It would have remained an adolescent pipe-dream were it not for the fact that Daddy was a Beeb executive and knew which strings to pull."

In reply to Lil_Pete:

Very good.

In reply to Lil_Pete:

Thanks for the link. Dawes has a chapter dedicated to this episode in his recent autobiography. The young lass in question was Abigail Mann.

In reply to Clauso: Is that the girl with a love bight on her neck at the end of the trip?

In reply to Clauso:

Oh really? I'm still to read it, another reason to now!

In reply to Lil_Pete:

Brilliant, thanks for this, wanted to see it for years!

In reply to Lil_Pete: Brilliant bit of film! The bit with Dawes and Dave Thomas was brilliant!

DC

In reply to Lil_Pete:

Entertaining, thanks. Wonder what happened to AM after that.

Is that Paul Nunn I see in the doss?

jcm

In reply to Lil_Pete:

Thank You very much for that... Brilliant.

Woody

In reply to johncoxmysteriously:

This from 2008:

http://www.thejc.com/news/people/abigail-mann-races-cross-pennines-time-her...

In reply to Clauso:

Thanks. Still organising, then.

The Law Society doesn't seem to recognise her. Not a very good sign. I hope she's all right; I rather took to her from the film.

jcm

In reply to Lil_Pete:

Thanks for uploading it. Good film. The footage was pretty good. I'd have liked more Dawes and less of the Kaim but I suppose they had to concentrate on the big route...
Fascinating watching the politics of the trip evolve from the initial premise!

In reply to Mike Nolan:

Must have tied the knot with someone

In reply to Lil_Pete:
Thats a brilliant video! Thanks foir sharing!

Trist

In reply to Lil_Pete: Thanks for uploading. TV has certainly changed over the years.

In reply to Lil_Pete:

Cheers I was looking for a copy of this last year.

The cameo of Johnny "actually climbing" on the North Bank cliffs does highlight that the Kame is not the best objective on Foula by a long shot.

In reply to Lil_Pete:
Thanks for posting that - some fine photography.

In reply to Lil_Pete:

I was looking at Foula in the SMC Northern Highlands North guide - there doesn't seem to be any record of the ascents on that trip.

In reply to Lil_Pete:

Cheers for posting that.

So it's pronounce Foola then; learn sumfink new every day

In reply to Southern Man:

Of course it is, you foul!...