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Dave MacLeod reports on his blog about his desperate sounding and steep looking Ben Nevis first ascent of Night Fury (IX,9) with Helen Renndard:

"...The gear was mostly rubbish, but one sort of okay cam convinced me not to rig an abseil straight away. I hung in for ages, totally pumped trying to place a small ice hook..."

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In reply to UKC News:

I'm intrigued - if the gear is rubbish what do you rig an abseil from ?

In reply to GrahamD:

I imagine you retreat to the bottom of the corner and abseil from there, as opposed to climbing above the rubbish gear for some way. Or something like that.

jcm

In reply to GrahamD:
He most likely means ab off from the hanging belay (the quotes miss out bits from the blog).