Run away east!

This week I'm working with professional adventurer Ben Thackawray who has some big plans for the future. Our aim was to develop his skills as an independent mountaineer. With a rather wet and warm forecast for the west coast of Scotland we opted to make the drive over to the Cairngorms. The Fiacaill Ribs in Coire an t-Sneachda gave us the perfect training ground to look at rope systems, building belays, stance management. and abseil descents. There was a reasonable amount of avalanche debris in the coire but still some huge cornices threatening many of the routes.