{"id":6150,"date":"2016-03-16T21:09:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2016-03-16T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:09:10","slug":"immortal-memory-second-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=6150","title":{"rendered":"Immortal Memory – Second Ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uisdean Hawthorn on the third pitch of Immortal Memory (IX,9) during the second ascent. This demanding winter-only line on the Far East Wall of Beinn Eighe was first climbed by Guy Robertson and Jason Currie in January 2013. (Photo Murdoch Jamieson)<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s been something of a landmark year on Beinn Eighe with repeats of many hard routes, and on March 3,\u00a0 Murdoch Jamieson, Ian Parnell and Uisdean Hawthorn continued the trend with the second ascent of Immortal Memory (IX,9).<\/p>\n

\u201c We had a social walk in with Dave Macleod and Steve Perry so the walking was easy,\u201d Murdoch explained. \u201cDescending the gully and turning left, we all became very excited.\u00a0 The Far East Wall was looking very wintry in terms of Far East Wall standards.\u00a0 (With it being so steep, I guess it\u2019s hard for it to get in such good condition).\u00a0 All of a sudden there was too much choice!\u00a0 I left the decision up to Ian and Uisdean. They settled for Immortal memory [whilst Dave and Steve went for Sundance].<\/p>\n

Ian nominated himself to start us off.\u00a0 Uisdean sent me up the second pitch.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty physical and pumpy.\u00a0 Not much feet along with being very steep.\u00a0 Things were nicely gazed in verglas so I was made to work harder for my protection – a relentless pitch.\u00a0 Uisdean took on pitch 3, which again is superb.\u00a0 It never gave up till he rocked over the top of the crag… no nice easier ground at the top to relax like the other routes I\u2019ve been on.<\/p>\n

We went back a few days later, the crag was blacker than black!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been something of a landmark year on Beinn Eighe with repeats of many hard routes, and on March 3,\u00a0 Murdoch Jamieson, Ian Parnell and Uisdean Hawthorn continued the trend with the second ascent of Immortal Memory (IX,9). \u201c We … Continue reading →<\/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":[49,14,492,372,413],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repeat","tag-dave-macleod","tag-ian-parnell","tag-murdoch-jamieson","tag-steve-perry","tag-uisdean-hawthorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","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=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6154,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions\/6154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}