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Gargoyle Wall on Ben Nevis: My first Grade VI 6 winter climb.
Along with two good buddies, Nathan Adam and Huw Scott. We climbed our first winter grade VI together. It remains a particularly stand out day for me. From walking in at 0630 "taps off", dying from the exertion of trying to keep up with Huw bounding up the approach slope to No. 3 Buttress, to the Brocken spectre and rare autumnal sunshine in an otherwise usually stormy period of Scottish Early season mixed climbing. I edited the following video, because this was the Covid Lo

Louis Kennedy
May 81 min read


Rottweiler and WolfWhistle – Cairngorms Winter Climbing with Nathan Adam 14/01/2022
Nathan's account of our (accidental...) hybrid line of Wolfwhistle VII 7 and Jaws VII 8 that made it on to the "Scottish Winter Blog" and can be found here: scroll to the 14/01/22 entry on http://www.scottishwinter.com/?paged=2 . "Nathan Adam has had a busy winter so far, notching up some excellent ascents in the West and East. Here he describes a couple of early repeats on Lurcher’s Crag: “Yesterday (January 9) we had a grand day on Rottweiler which I think may have been the

Louis Kennedy
Nov 18, 20232 min read
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