{"id":1074,"date":"2010-12-23T18:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T18:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2010-12-23T18:15:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T18:15:42","slug":"the-godfather-repeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"The Godfather Repeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1075\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/29Jan2010_Beinn-Bhan001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1075\" title=\"29Jan2010_Beinn Bhan001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/29Jan2010_Beinn-Bhan001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/29Jan2010_Beinn-Bhan001.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/29Jan2010_Beinn-Bhan001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Bracey on the third ascent of The Godfather (VIII,8). This touchstone route, first climbed by Martin Moran and Paul Tattersall in March 2002, is one of the most revered routes in the Northern Highlands. (Photo Rich Cross)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rich Cross and Jon Bracey made a lightning visit to the Highlands last weekend and came away with ascents of Central Buttress on Stob Core nan Lochan and Messiah above Bridge of Orchy. On Sunday December 19, they made the third ascent of The Godfather on Beinn Bhan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Godfather is class, a really brilliant journey,\u201d Rich told me \u201cOur ascent was not without incident as I broke the handle off my axe on the second pitch \u2013 we considered going down but days like that don\u2019t come around very often, so we managed to press on seconding with the stump. An amazing day with light winds and almost blue skies, but really cold!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Godfather is acquiring a reputation for giving parties a rough ride. On the first ascent, Martin and Paul had a torrid time climbing with a failing head torch, and a near miss second attempt resulted in a badly damaged ankle and an epic retreat. These big North-West routes don\u2019t come easy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Cross and Jon Bracey made a lightning visit to the Highlands last weekend and came away with ascents of Central Buttress on Stob Core nan Lochan and Messiah above Bridge of Orchy. On Sunday December 19, they made the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1074\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[50,153,31],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repeat","tag-beinn-bhan","tag-jon-bracey","tag-rich-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}