Month: June 2019

Blackrock Cottage April meet, Glencoe

The Black Rock cottage with Stob Dearg towering behind has been the centre piece of many breath taking photos and lines of poetic mastery. The Lomonder’s managed neither of these for their April meet report, so this must be an achievement of sorts!    

The Eiger

By Michael, 2015, The Eiger, what can say about this mountain that hasn’t already been said? When I was 21 my friend Jed gave me a VHS video of a French climber Christoph Profit called A Winter Trilogy . It features Christoph solo climbing the north face’s of the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grand Jorasses. This was 1987 so long before HD and Uli Steck, but I loved to watch this video and often dreamed of …

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