Great, thanks. It looks like the corrie Sron na Ciche is in - Coire Lagan, is it? - but from my limited experience of the area I don't recognise the route.
I also don't recognise the notion that gabbro is only found in Skye and the Lofotens - any geologists like to comment?
Love the comment that, if the leader falls, "...the worse they can do is dangle". Yup, dangle with a shed-load of broken bones and a fractured skull, if he's not threaded round some chockstones or spikes.
Interesting but to be fair hemp hawser laid rope will tend to bite rather than slip when force is applied I would think. Not that I'm old enough to know for sure. Hawser laid nylon was my first rope and I'm pretty sure we used a stopper but it's that long ago who knows? It certainly held me a few times, my ribs still remember.
> Great, thanks. It looks like the corrie Sron na Ciche is in - Coire Lagan, is it? - but from my limited experience of the area I don't recognise the route.
Think it's probably the approach to the Amphitheatre, Bob, going rightwards from below Cioch West. The slabs over to the right would then be Diamond Slab/ Central Slabs. Whether they then continued rightwards up Amphitheatre Arete (probable) or leftwards up West Ridge I can't tell.
> Think it's probably the approach to the Amphitheatre, Bob, going rightwards from below Cioch West. The slabs over to the right would then be Diamond Slab/ Central Slabs. Whether they then continued rightwards up Amphitheatre Arete (probable) or leftwards up West Ridge I can't tell.
Maybe, but there was a shot looking steeply up at Sgurr Sgumain which suggested East Buttress to me.
I thought East Buttress. Don’t think it’s the Amphitheatre as the profile of West Buttress is so far away.
Saying that, East Buttress has some very distinctive pitches and the film only shows rambling ground. Maybe it’s just a wander up the front of Sgumain.
> I thought East Buttress. Don’t think it’s the Amphitheatre as the profile of West Buttress is so far away.
> Saying that, East Buttress has some very distinctive pitches and the film only shows rambling ground. Maybe it’s just a wander up the front of Sgumain.
The view of Sgumain looked too much from the right to me for that. Very distinctive.
The distinctive group of vertical cracks to the left of the film at 0.49, with various little overlaps, show on the first photo above, and above the righthand climber (on Cioch West) on the second photo.
At 1:35 the Final Tower of Sgumain is seen, as you say, with Penitentiary Grooves fairly clear. I don't remember any difficulty seeing that from around Cioch Buttress.