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Two Lifted off Bidean, Glencoe

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Steve Hayward 21 Jan 2018
Steve Hayward 21 Jan 2018
In reply to Dark-Cloud:

Ooops. Didn't see that. Will naughty step myself for the rest of the day.

 Mal Grey 21 Jan 2018
In reply to Steve Hayward:

Sron na Lairig, maybe, looking at the footage? Don't know it well enough. Ski mountaineering? 

Glad everybody OK, will have been quite an ordeal. Clearly well enough equipped to survive the night in a very exposed spot.

 

 malk 21 Jan 2018
In reply to Mal Grey:

don't ski mountaineers carry axes to get themselves out of such predicaments?

 Mal Grey 21 Jan 2018
In reply to malk:

Do you know that they weren't? I don't know what equipment they had. 

 malk 21 Jan 2018
 Dark-Cloud 21 Jan 2018
In reply to malk:

I certainly do, even if I’m not headed for a ridge.

 Cog 21 Jan 2018
In reply to Mal Grey:

> Sron na Lairig, maybe.

 

That was the word on the street.

 JohnBson 22 Jan 2018
In reply to Steve Hayward:

Does look like Sron Na Lairig. Got caught out there myself in sugary snow. We took 14 hours to get back to the car with a following group needing assistance. The ridge is comitting and there are a few pitches which you cannot reverse on abseil and retreating to the gullys may not be an option. Belays weren't great either. All got down safe but it took effort and cost me feeling in my finger tips.

 Martin W 22 Jan 2018

> Does look like Sron Na Lairig.

Glencoe MRT facebook posting calls it "the wee lairig":

https://www.facebook.com/glencoemountainrescueteam/posts/1564453886974739

 Mark Bull 22 Jan 2018
In reply to JohnBson:

> Does look like Sron Na Lairig. 

Lat/long co-ords at the top of the heli video agree! 

 

 

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