{"id":5236,"date":"2015-02-19T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T22:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2015-02-19T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T22:46:20","slug":"shear-fear-on-ben-nevis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=5236","title":{"rendered":"Shear Fear on Ben Nevis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5237\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5237\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5237\" alt=\"Michael Barnard climbing the line of Shear Fear (VI,5) on Ben Nevis. This steep two-pitch line on the west side of Tower Ridge provides a direct finish to Vanishing Gully. (Photo John MacLeod)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/13Feb2015_Ben-Nevis002.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/13Feb2015_Ben-Nevis002.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/13Feb2015_Ben-Nevis002-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Barnard climbing the line of Shear Fear (VI,5) on Ben Nevis. This steep two-pitch line on the west side of Tower Ridge provides a direct finish to Vanishing Gully. (Photo John MacLeod)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Michael Barnard and John MacLeod climbed a possible new ice route on Ben Nevis on February 14. \u201cWe climbed the obvious icefall overlooking the easier upper gully of 1934 Route, which makes a good finale to Vanishing Gully,\u201d Michael told me. \u201cI guess it could have been done before, but I can&#8217;t find any record. We called it Shear Fear and graded it VI,5. It\u2019s often thin, and would be at least a grade easier with thicker ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Michael says, this is a very obvious feature (when formed) and it makes a natural finish to Vanishing Gully. Michael is absolutely correct that there is no published record of a route hereabouts, but I seem to recall a description in the CIC Hut Book of an ascent by (I think) an Italian party.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have a look at the hut book again when I\u2019m next in the CIC, but in the meantime, if anybody knows of an ascent of this excellent-looking line, the please get in touch or leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Barnard and John MacLeod climbed a possible new ice route on Ben Nevis on February 14. \u201cWe climbed the obvious icefall overlooking the easier upper gully of 1934 Route, which makes a good finale to Vanishing Gully,\u201d Michael told &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=5236\">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":[7],"tags":[8,542,221],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-ben-nevis","tag-john-macleod","tag-michael-barnard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","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=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5256,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}