{"id":1736,"date":"2010-04-03T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T11:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:31:40","slug":"long-day-on-north-east-buttress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/long-day-on-north-east-buttress.html","title":{"rendered":"Long day on North-East Buttress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I climbed North-East Buttress (IV,4, and one of the great classic ridges) on Ben Nevis with Isi Oakley in glorious late-season conditions.<\/p>\n

Got overtaken early on by Steve Kennedy and Bob Hamilton, who disappeared soloing quickly up the gully above the First Platform, and spent much of the day catching another pair (Richard and Eva) and their 50m rope at stances before they finally lost us high up, but still can’t account for the length of time we were out on what was (bar my brief fight with the Mantrap) basically a straightforward ascent…<\/p>\n

So we swung leads most of the day although Isi asked me to take the lead on one or two pitches and I got the gnarliest bits including an awkward rightward exit from that early gully (following Richard and Eva, who subsequently confirmed that I’d seen what I thought I’d seen when I said Steve and Bob had moved left there), the Mantrap (failed, and turned by the Tough-Brown Variant) and the 40ft Corner (OK, but protected by two marginal screws with no sign of the pegs I didn’t know were there). As for that Mantrap, I did try, but it’s an undeniably awkward obstacle in a mixed style I’m not that au fait with, better climbers than me have been repulsed by it and I thought it technically harder (some say tech 6!) than anything on the Grade Vs I did this season. However, it was still a great day out and (apart from a temporary deterioration to near-whiteout conditions in a chilly, rising wind as we topped out) memorable for the unusually good views as well as the great climbing.<\/p>\n

To the eagle-eyed studying the photos, yes, we were consciously treating my light half ropes as twins! :-)<\/p>\n

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