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tomorrow I'm going off with my older brother to climb An-Teallach in the West of Scotland. Below are some pictures of it. If you never hear from me again, assume I fell to my death or something romantic like that. Who wants my book collexion?! |
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looks like a good hike =) hope you enjoy it! |
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btw #2 looks VERY cool. |
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well, we're just about to leave now. Driving there today, camping overnight with weed and drink, then climbing the mount tomorrow!:) |
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Looks good :D Sounds good :D Apart from the climbing part. Make sure you have an blunt penknife incase a bolder falls on your arm. :D! |
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Aint no moutain high enough! |
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oh man that looks beautiful. have a shitload of fun! maybe you can yell at god while you're up there ;) |
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Hey thats why Paul is doing this.. so he can be closer to God! |
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Bastard! :) No mountains here whatsoever... this country's as flat as... uh, something very flat... :) |
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"as flat as ya ma's tits" is a common saying by mine. Fo example if the car tire is flat you would inform you friend "I won't be coming to yours today because me tires as flat as ya ma's tits" |
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my mother's toe nails fell off from walking up snowdon...... and that was just on a foot path ! |
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Have fun. Try to slaughter some bears and make coats out of them, a la Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin in The Edge. That was so hardcore, I know you have it in you. |
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hi, I'm back from climbing An-Teallach, and it was amazing! The mountain is a kilometre high, starting at sea-level, and it was really quite hairy several times - most of the time, if you slipped, that would have been it - no way of stopping yourself, and you would fall to you death. When we got to the top of the first peak, Sail Liath, just under a kilometre high, the wind was really blowing, maybe 60 mph. We looked over to the next peak (Corrag Bhuidhe) which was very steep and very rocky, and debated continuing. Finally, we descended into a col, and made our way to the base of it, and it was too tempting. We climbed the rock face, making a traverse of the mountain for a while, with the wind still blowing hard, and we walking a narrow path along the steep side. Finally, we spotted a way up to the peak, and climbed jutting rocks to the peak, which contains Lord Berkeley's Seat, which is famous because if you dropped a stone down from there, it would fall the longest period of time, in the whole UK, before hitting anything, It juts out, and faces a kilometre down into a lovely valley contain Loch Toll an Lochain. Once up there, it was an easy scramble over to the peak of Sgurr Fiona. Then there was a very steep and rocky descent, before one last climb of 140 metres up to the Bidein a'Ghlas Thuill, the highest peak on the mountain. The views were absolutely spectacular, 360 degree panaromas of the surrounding mountains, also we could see the West coast shore, and some of the islans of the West Coast - maybe even Skye. Our long descent began with a treacherous and extremely steep scree run, which ended in a narrow path zig-zagging down - at times, it become muddy and pretty slippy, especially when it ran parallel with a small stream. We also saw some lovely waterfalls, deer sheep and mountain goats on the steep slope. It was all so amazing! When our photoes are developed I'll let you see them. A kilometre high above the landscape - fantastic! |
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Ah... I'm reminded of the many climbs I took up Mt. Popocatepetl with my Cuban comrades in Mexico. |
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The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain. |
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Sounds like you had a good laugh! Look forward to the photos :) |
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yep, now I feel immortal and invincible! |
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there is a spanish climber who has just made his 19th conquer of a +8000metres mountain juan oiarzabal |
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I'm working my way up to climbing K2! :D |
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I go with you |
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Go Marlowe! Is that book collection offer still stand? :P |
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DOES! that should say. Not is. Fucking english. |
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sure - I would want my books to go to a good home! :) |
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Yay! But that's no reason to be careless now Paul! |
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hehe - next time I'm gonna take some ROPE with me! There are some nice bits of rock-climbing to be had, but only if you're secure! There are some loco people who do rock-climbing without any ropes or anything. I have the utmost respect for their courage! |
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Freestyle rock climbing.... Woah! Balls of pure steel needed for that. I can't do that myself. I'm fine when I have the rope but when I see these people gaily clambering along 100's of feet in the air.... woah. |
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you can only watch and admire open-mouthed! new respect found when you've climbed a mountain yourself, and know the dangers involved. It's all very well climbing a little rock face at ground level, but when it's stuck on a mound a kilometre high, a kilometre which slopes steeply to terra firma, the mental aspects REALLY start to kick in! |
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