Mark Hendry, Andy Stotesbury and I headed on a fantastic day into the Ben, to 'have a look'! First day for us to climb together, and Mark is in full prep mode for his MIC assess, so what would we go for... In the end we plumped for Thompson's Route (IV,4***) on Number Three Gully Buttress. Here Mark is finishing the steep section of pitch 1. Today Andy was sporting his brand new Quarks - very impressive!
Greg Boswell on The Banshee (V,5*). Look at his Blog . So this was on our left and on our right, a german team were in full attack mode on Greg Boswell's new X - to the left of the secret, round the corner.. A lot to distract us from our route. Especially when we heard a scream and the german leader fell off the X - dropping an axe in the process. They calmly lowered to the belay... - and set off again...
Mark finishing one of the steep sections of pitch two.
Mark is finishing the steepest section of pitch 2. He's managed to do it without bridging out to his right. I was all over the bridge.
At last Mark's turn to lead on pitch 3.
Here is the German team after they both got to the top of the X (don't know it's name - only 4 weeks old?). The route takes the wall (overhanging?) in the sun below and slightly left of the team. Their photographer got all the action - we'll have to wait 'till the magazines to see if he got the fall...
The route starts a little below the shadow on the left wall.
Mark and Andy stride off towards No.4 for an easy descent.
Mark and Andy watching people crossing the gap on Tower ridge.
Andy and Mark. It was a great day... So we'll go out tom (Friday) somewhere too...
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