Last night I managed to rescue some pics I took on a mate’s camera from a trip across Beinn Eighe in April…
A trip across Beinn Eighe
Contemplating the slide off into Coire Mhic Fhearchair
Looking west along the Beinn Eighe main ridge
Virgin snow yet to be trodden with Liatach looking on
Triple Butress after a night of snowfall
Steve on the summit of Spidean Coire nan Clach
Great view of the Beinn Eighe ridge on a sunny day in April
Andy on Spidean Coire nan Clach
After an hour of struggle from the back of the corrie
Beautiful pictures! 😀
Wow – fantastic.
nice piccy’s Andy………… was that the last sunshine in the UK?? 😆
The first and penultimate pictures show the triple buttress. There is a classic hard severe right up the middle of the central buttress. The rock changes from sandstone to limestone half way up at the inflexion. I will dig out some pictures of my ascent in 19??
Also, there is a wrecked Lincoln bomber at the top of the right hand gully, missed the top by 12ft in 1952.
All the way down is wreckage, including a Merlin engine which was virtually intact. I have a picture of it, showing engine number, which I keep meaning to send to Rolls Royce.
Wow, all excited now, wanna go climb it and do some modern archeology… Maybe there’s some treasure too?
Yes Grim, it was the last sunshine I can remember! Got more awesome pics from the trip for the next Spiders meet.
great pics Andy – looks like a fab day out
One for Colin really 😀
Hey Colin, I’ve dug out that old photo of the Lincoln bomber crash in 1952.
You see attached a picture of what I assume to be a Rolls Royce Merlin 102 engine 🙁
I found it way down the hillside from the crash-site. You can even just make out part of the engine number.
Do you think I should submit it to RR? Do you think they would be interested?