In reply to alasdair19:
Ok, my solo of the ridge was 50 years ago, I was a teenager and had arranged to do it with two mates but I got pissed the night before in Dunvegan and at dawn they couldn't rouse me. I eventually surfaced and set out to catch them, not sure how far I was behind. A nightmare climb up Garbs Bheinn working my hangover off and I started the ridge, I carried a half length rope for abseils etc.
It was a very hot day and I was reduced to sucking moss for liquid when my water ran out, halfway along the ridge I decided to pack in and descended a small gully in which I found a spring just below the ridge. Thus replenished I climbed back up the gully and carried on.
The maps for Skye were very bad in those days, the best being an SMC one sold with the guide that was in B+W. I momentarily got lost and asked a Scottish couple if I was on Sgurr Geradgh, their reply was not understandable to me so I carried on along the ridge. I soled all the climbs in the kind of trainers that were available in those years, the TD Gap was a bit frightening.
Coming off Sgurr Nan Gillean in the dark was scarey too but I could see the lights of the Sligachan Inn across the moor like a beacon and got there, just in time to catch up with my mates for last orders, I realised I had the greatest day out I was ever going to have in British mountains.
Next year I went to the Alps.