Winter Climbs in the Cairngorms

The Cairngorms and Creag Meagaidh

Allen Fyffe, Blair Fyffe (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2011 | 6th Revised edition
Cicerone Press (Verlag)
978-1-85284-622-0 (ISBN)

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A practical guidebook to the best winter climbing routes in the Cairngorms, on Creag Meagaidh noted for its classic ice climbs, Lochnagar and Braeriach. Routes include a wide range of grades, lengths and styles, with stunning photographs, topos and route descriptions. Simple to exceptionally difficult routes. Scottish winter climbing at its best.

This guide, now in a fully updated sixth edition, offers a selection of some of the best winter routes to be found in the Cairngorms and on Creag Meagaidh. The granite peaks of the Cairngorms have extensive areas of high plateau and four peaks of over 4000ft, while Creag Meagaidh is noted for its classic ice climbs. Well-known routes on Lochnagar are also covered here, as well as the more remote and serious climbs on Braeriach. With something to suit all winter climbers here in the heart of Scotland, the Cairngorms has it all. Routes are illustrated in 51 colour photo topos and include a wide range of grades, lengths and styles, from straightforward to exceptionally difficult. All routes require a solid mountaineering or climbing background.

Allen Fyffe has been an active mountaineer for over 40 years and has completed over 200 new routes in Scotland in both summer and winter. He has also climbed in Canada and Peru but is especially active in the Cairngorms. Blair Fyffe has rock climbed extensively throughout Britain and Europe and has climbed new winter routes in Norway and new alpine routes in Kyrgyzstan. In 2006 he completed a PhD in slab avalanche release at Edinburgh University.

Getting to the Cairngorms

List of diagrams

Introduction

Conditions
Routes and grades
Route lengths
Recommended routes
Maps
Equipment
Avalanches
Mountain rescue

Cairngorms North

Overview map

Coire an t-Sneachda

The Mess of Pottage
Aladdin's Buttress
Fluted Buttress
Fiacaill Buttress

Coire an Lochain

Number 1 Buttress
Number 2 Buttress
Number 3 Buttress
Number 4 Buttress

Lurcher's Crag (Creag an Leth-Choin)

Sron na Lairige

Carn Etchachan

The Lower Cliff, Main Face
The Upper Cliff, Main Face
The Gully Face

Shelter Stone Crag

Garbh Uisge Crag

Hell's Lum Crag

Stag Rocks

Left-hand Section
Right-hand Section

Stac an Fharaidh

East Flank
West Flank

The Cairntoul/Braeriach Amphitheatre

Angel's Peak
Corrie of the Chokestone Gully
Garbh Choire Mor
Garbh Choire Dhaidh
Coire Bhrochain
Coire an Lochain

The Corries of Beinn a'Bhuird

Coire na Ciche
Coire an Dubh Lochain
Garbh Choire

Coire Sputan Dearg

Grey Man's Crag Area
Snake Ridge Area
The Central Buttresses

Creagan a'Choire Etchachan

Cairngorms South

Overview map
Lochnagar

The Southern Sector

Perseverance Wall
The Cathedral

The Northern Sector

Central and Shadow Buttress Group
Eagle Ridge and the Parallel Buttress Group
Black Spout Pinnacle
West Buttress Group

Creag an Dubh Loch

Eagles Rocks

Mid-West Buttress
Mid-East Buttress
Broad Cairn Bluffs

Glen Clova

Winter Corrie
Corrie Fee

Creag Meagaidh

Overview map

Creag Meagaidh

Girdle Traverse
Bellevue Buttress
Raeburn's Gully Buttress
Pinnacle Buttress
The Post Face
The Inner Corrie

Appendix A Index of Routes: Cairngorms North

Appendix B Index of Routes: Cairngorms South

Appendix C Index of Routes: Creag Meagaidh

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.12.2011
Zusatzinfo	70 colour photos and 50 colour photo topos
Verlagsort	Kendal
Sprache	englisch
Maße	116 x 172 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ski- / Wintersport
ISBN-10	1-85284-622-4 / 1852846224
ISBN-13	978-1-85284-622-0 / 9781852846220
Zustand	Neuware