Archives | June 2008
Zim’s Drascombe Longboat
"That was bloody stupid!" Claire berated Graham, "that's the last time I'm setting out to do a new route on a cliff this size at 6 O'clock in the evening". It was close to midnight and at this northern latitude there was just enough daylight remaining to make out features on the overhanging headwall which thankfully we had not had to climb. "Well, we went looking for adventure and that was what we found" was Graham's summary of our achievement. To describe how I found myself that evening exhausted and euphoric above Loch...