{"id":1529,"date":"2011-02-02T22:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2011-02-02T22:15:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:15:12","slug":"triple-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"Triple Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rolling Stones area on the East Flank of Tower Ridge, Ben Nevis. Marked in red is the line of Faith Healer (VIII,7 \u2013 Small\/Parnell 2010), and in blue the new addition Triple X (VIII,8) climbed by visiting climbers Ines Papert and Charly Fritzer with Dave MacLeod. (Archive Photo Simon Richardson)<\/p><\/div>\n

Visiting climbers Ines Papert and Charly Fritzer visited Ben Nevis with Dave MacLeod on January 28. After weighing up various new route options, they decided to try a new line based on the rarely climbed summer HVS Rolling Stones on the east side of Tower Ridge.<\/p>\n

The result was Triple X (VIII,8), which starts with a tricky bulge followed by a bold right-tending traverse (led by Charly) before climbing a thinly iced slab on the second pitch (with Ines in the lead). The route then joined Faith Healer (VIII,7)<\/a> that was climbed by Iain Small and Ian Parnell last January. MacLeod took the ropes on this shared third pitch, which follows a steep poorly protected corner which Parnell had described as \u201cnot a married man’s pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conditions have been very good on Ben Nevis over the last few days, but even so, this was a well timed ascent of an icy mixed route that had been on the list of several Nevis regulars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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