Tag Archives: Donie O’Sullivan

New Routes on SCNL

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Simon Richardson

Pete Davies, Helen Rennard and Donie O’Sullivan have been exploring the upper right wall of SC Gully on Stob Coire nan Lochan in Glen Coe and have come away with three good new two-pitch mixed climbs. All three routes start … Continue reading →

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Night of the White Russians

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Simon Richardson

The first of the two new routes on Observatory Buttress climbed on March 16 fell to Pete Davies, Donie O’Sullivan and Tim Marsh when they added Night of the White Russians (VII,6), which starts on the right flank of the … Continue reading →

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Grooverider

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Simon Richardson

Pete Davies, Donie O’Sullivan and Ross Cowie added a little bit of new climbing to the North-East Buttress area of the Ben on Saturday, February 2. “There was excellent snow ice on all the easier angled ground,” Pete told me. … Continue reading →

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Gully of the Sods

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Simon Richardson

Unaware of the first ascent of Fly Me to the Moon nine days before, Pete Davies and Donie O’Sullivan also visited the Crescent Gully area of Creag Meagaidh and made the superb first ascent of Gully of the Sods (VI,6) … Continue reading →

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The Primate – First Winter Ascent

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Simon Richardson

On February 5, Pete Davies and Donie O’Sullivan laid a long sought-after problem to rest with the first winter ascent of The Primate (VIII,8) on the West Wall of Mitre Ridge in the remote Garbh Choire of Beinn a’Bhuird. “We … Continue reading →

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