The Ridge part 1
Way before the idea of completing Ken’s Classics came about, “The greatest mountaineering challenge in Britain” had long been on our agenda. The superlative experience that takes in the entire Cuillin Ridge had been attempted and aborted by greater climbers than us and we had previously planned and recced the ridge only to have decent weather and diary gaps fail to line up. Yet the allure of this pure challenge remained and kept forcing it’s way into conversations and potential diary slots until finally in May 2018 all the right elements lined up. If you’ve never driven through Glencoe by moonlight I’d thoroughly recommend it. If you’ve never driven through the night without sleep from Leicester to Glen Brittle, hoping to get your head down on a busy bank holiday camp-site just as everyone else is getting up, I wouldn’t recommend it. We knew we’d be knackered after the ridge, but we didn’t expect the sleep deprivation to begin this early. After a little lie down but no real rest, prepa