{"id":7177,"date":"2019-12-20T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2019-12-20T18:59:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:59:16","slug":"no-jive-turkeys-on-ben-nevis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=7177","title":{"rendered":"No Jive Turkeys on Ben Nevis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7178\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7178\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Slide1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Slide1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Slide1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The line of Jive Turkey (V,6) on the right side of Creag Coire na Ciste on Ben Nevis. The upper scoop of North Gully is on the left and Number Four Gully is the broad snow couloir bounding the right side of the buttress. (Topo Jonathan Livesey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jonathan Livesey and Connor Henley added a good new route to Creag Coire na Ciste on Ben Nevis on December 14. Jive Turkey (V,6) starts up a small corner groove 10m downhill from the prominent chocked chimney in the climbers left wall of Number Four Gully. It climbs the corner-groove for 5m to a good runner then takes a leftward\u00a0rising traverse on thin hooks to a horizontal turfy break. \u00a0This leads around the ar\u00eate into a chimney-groove, which finishes in a snow bay. Two easier pitches leads to the top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had no intention of climbing anything new,\u201d Jonny told me. \u201cWe were walking into Number Three Gully Buttress but got a bit lost in the dark and driving snow at 6am, and ended up at the bottom of Number Four Gully. We elected to climb a likely looking line assuming it was an established route, and only realised later it might not have been done before. Once we figured it wasn\u2019t in the guide we thought we\u2019d report it &#8211; an accidental new route by a couple of jive turkeys!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonny and Connor are certainly not jive turkeys. The front face of the buttress between North and Number Fur Gully has four recorded routes \u2013 The Gift (III,4), Forearm (IV,5), Four Play (IV,4), and Fore \u2018n Daft (IV,4) &#8211; but no routes have ever been recorded before on the steep left wall of Number Four Gully. Harvey Mullen and Robin Clothier climbed the groove and capping roof starting from the right toe of the buttress in December 2002, but I\u2019m not aware of any other ascents in this area.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m particularly intrigued because work on a new Ben Nevis guidebook is well underway. Thousands of climbers have passed this wall descending Number Four Gully, so if you know of any more ascents in this area, then please get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Livesey and Connor Henley added a good new route to Creag Coire na Ciste on Ben Nevis on December 14. Jive Turkey (V,6) starts up a small corner groove 10m downhill from the prominent chocked chimney in the climbers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=7177\">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":[8,740,739],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-route","tag-ben-nevis","tag-connor-henley","tag-jonathan-livesey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","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=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7183,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}