{"id":720,"date":"2010-11-24T20:07:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T20:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2010-11-24T22:22:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T22:22:57","slug":"the-secret-repeated-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Repeated Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_722\" style=\"width: 456px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/23Nov2010_Ben-Nevis0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-722\" class=\"size-full wp-image-722\" title=\"23Nov2010_Ben Nevis001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/23Nov2010_Ben-Nevis0011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/23Nov2010_Ben-Nevis0011.jpg 446w, http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/23Nov2010_Ben-Nevis0011-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Macpherson contemplating the crux pitch of The Secret (VIII,9), Ben Nevis. Macherson&#39;s ascent with Martin Moran was the fifth ascent of this touchstone mixed test-piece. (Photo Pete Macpherson Collection)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday (November 23), Pete Macpherson and Martin Moran made an ascent of The Secret on Ben Nevis. This modern test-piece, high on Creag Coire na Ciste overlooking Number Three Gully, was first climbed in December 2007 by Andy Turner, Steve Ashworth and Viv Scott. Since then it has been the focus for a number of teams and Pete and Martin\u2019s ascent is thought to be the fifth ascent.<\/p>\n<p>Full of confidence from their first ascent of Omerta (VIII,9) in Coire an t-Sneachda last week, the pair made a swift ascent.\u00a0 Martin led the awkward first pitch and Pete took the lead for the spectacular crux pitch. The grade is settling down at VIII,9 but most importantly, as Pete explained \u201cThe Secret is a fantastic line and great climbing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (November 23), Pete Macpherson and Martin Moran made an ascent of The Secret on Ben Nevis. This modern test-piece, high on Creag Coire na Ciste overlooking Number Three Gully, was first climbed in December 2007 by Andy Turner, Steve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/?p=720\">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":[10],"tags":[8,45,6],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repeat","tag-ben-nevis","tag-martin-moran","tag-pete-macpherson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottishwinter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}