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More Alpine skills training. 27 april

27/04/11

mike’s report

Tim & Sam are actually off to Mongolia not the Alps next year but their rope skills should help them enjoy the unclimbed peaks out there with greater confidence. Both have shown good abilities and understanding and I let them keep each other safe for most of the outing today.

In cold but glorious weather we climbed Sgumain, Alasdair and Thearlaich

Final section of the south-west flank approach to Alasdair

An important exercise was setting up anchors for abseils and descending Sgurr Thearlaich direct certainly provided a testing challenge.

Tim on the top abseil with Blaven behind.

Sam holds the nerve a long way above Coire an Lochain

 Turquoise waters of Loch Coire a’ Ghrunnda