Found this one just now - Liathach being on my bucketlist. Marvellous vid! And indeed an awe-inspiring experience not for the fainthearted! How did you experience the descend, and how many hours on the hoof in total?
Wilco de Jonge The descent is a long scree path from the final Munro and is definitely a tough one underfoot. There is another top just along the ridge after the final Munro so you can hop over to that and back. We took our time during the day and all in all from car, across the ridge, down to the valley and back along the road to the car it was a full 12 hours. It was however a day of amazing scenery that is certainly worth the aching legs!
+Wilco de Jonge Id definitely go about it the way we traversed it. the ascent is a rather steep one but at least you gain the altitude fast. ascending the descent route would frankly be a demoralising slog up scree and boulder fields. it would not be a pleasant introduction to the mountain in my opinion :)
Did they bypass the Am Fasarinen Pinnacles. Looks like they took the bypass route which I can tell you, in places the exposure is more scary than the pinnacles. lol
I went to do the bypass route and in the end I climbed up and did the pinnacles as I didn't think they could not have been scarier. They were - but not much. I left a trail of excrement from one end to the other. But I didn't tackle the Meall Dearg spur to the North of Mullach An Rathain which is really dangerous and remains one of the tops I haven't climbed. My walking partner did it alone and I never thought I'd see him alive again.
If you take the pinnacles head on and take your time there's no real danger. You just need to have a head for heights. Heights don't bother me. I've always overcome them by thinking. If this was 8ft from the ground would I be scared ;-)
Well Done! I walked this ridge in 1990.
Excellent film; poor choice of music (sorry!). Thanks for posting.
Utterly Awesome!!!!!! Well done to you all :) Tim
Found this one just now - Liathach being on my bucketlist. Marvellous vid! And indeed an awe-inspiring experience not for the fainthearted! How did you experience the descend, and how many hours on the hoof in total?
Wilco de Jonge The descent is a long scree path from the final Munro and is definitely a tough one underfoot. There is another top just along the ridge after the final Munro so you can hop over to that and back. We took our time during the day and all in all from car, across the ridge, down to the valley and back along the road to the car it was a full 12 hours. It was however a day of amazing scenery that is certainly worth the aching legs!
Wibbleman Heh, thank you! Would you advise walking/scrambling the other way round, that is, starting at that long scree path?
+Wilco de Jonge Id definitely go about it the way we traversed it. the ascent is a rather steep one but at least you gain the altitude fast. ascending the descent route would frankly be a demoralising slog up scree and boulder fields. it would not be a pleasant introduction to the mountain in my opinion :)
Is that blue lichen on some of the rocks? :o
Did they bypass the Am Fasarinen Pinnacles. Looks like they took the bypass route which I can tell you, in places the exposure is more scary than the pinnacles. lol
I went to do the bypass route and in the end I climbed up and did the pinnacles as I didn't think they could not have been scarier. They were - but not much. I left a trail of excrement from one end to the other. But I didn't tackle the Meall Dearg spur to the North of Mullach An Rathain which is really dangerous and remains one of the tops I haven't climbed. My walking partner did it alone and I never thought I'd see him alive again.
If you take the pinnacles head on and take your time there's no real danger. You just need to have a head for heights. Heights don't bother me. I've always overcome them by thinking. If this was 8ft from the ground would I be scared ;-)
I can attest to that, in some places I had to step across the gaps on muddy foot placements where the winter had taken the path away.
song?
Better you than me...
Nice video, bad music.