{"id":448,"date":"2010-02-01T10:55:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T09:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2010-11-04T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T20:42:14","slug":"another-bold-addition-to-ben-nevis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Another Bold Addition to Ben Nevis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_449\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/29Mar2010_Ben-Nevis021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-449\" title=\"29Mar2010_Ben Nevis021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/29Mar2010_Ben-Nevis021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/29Mar2010_Ben-Nevis021.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/29Mar2010_Ben-Nevis021-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith Healer (VIII,7) on the east flank of Tower Ridge takes the right hand of twin grooves, before traversing left. The crux exit corner is in the top left corner of the picture. (Archive Photo Simon Richardson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday January 28, Iain Small visited Ben Nevis with Ian Parnell. A brief thaw over the last couple of days limited their options, but high up in Observatory Gully they found Faith Healer (VIII,7)\u00a0 a challenging line of icy grooves to the right of Rolling Stones. Ian led the crux pitch, a difficult and bold corner to gain the crest of Tower Ridge. \u201c This proved to be significantly harder than anything below,\u201d Ian recounted on his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/ianparnellphotography.blogspot.com\">http:\/\/ianparnellphotography.blogspot.com<\/a>. \u201cIt reminded me of an iced up Migrant Direct only steeper and bolder but luckily half the length. Committing to poor \u2018pulling through snow-ice\u2019 hooks less than an inch deep with my crampons on quarter-inch verglas on the overhanging walls I remember thinking this wasn&#8217;t a married mans pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday January 28, Iain Small visited Ben Nevis with Ian Parnell. A brief thaw over the last couple of days limited their options, but high up in Observatory Gully they found Faith Healer (VIII,7)\u00a0 a challenging line of icy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=448\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8,13,14],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-ben-nevis","tag-iain-small","tag-ian-parnell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}