The two climbers who died in the Cairgorms, after getting caught in bad weather on Sunday 19th, were Aberdeen University student Richard Hardy from Alton in Hampshire, and graduate Graeme Cooper from Aberdeen. Graeme was a popular contributor to UKC and posted regularly under the name Cooper. Only last week he started a light-hearted thread about Extreme sledging.
The thread on the forums which began when news of their disappearance began to filter through initially makes harrowing reading. It then turns into a moving tribute thread with many contributions from friends and relatives of the two climbers.
I take it the weather really crapped out then? All the photos were of clear blue skies! Fingers crossed for them. Hope it turns out good, everyone has so much better kit these days you have a chance. A mate of mine spent a night out above Coire an Lochain some years ago after him and his partner got disoriented on the descent in wild weather. They tried digging in but the snow wasn't consolidated enough, but he said he mainly kept digging snow around just to keep warm. But he's a hard b*****d. Hopefully these guys turn up bedgraggled but OK.
we were climbing over in Corrie an Lochain yesterday, topped out around 3 ish and walked along the corrie rim to the goat track into t-sneachda and descended there down to the MR box did not see anyone, although the visibility was pish and the howling wind negated any converstaion / shouts took us a couple of hours to walk out from there in the wind and snow would not have been nice out there last night - hope they guys turn out safe enough
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