Thursday Night
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Film Competition
WHERE Main Theatre, Nevis Centre
WHEN 6.45pm - 10pm Doors open 6pm |
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Join us to view the finalists and winning films for the 2019 Best Short Film, Best Mountain Sports Film, Best Exploration and Adventure Film and John Muir Trust Wild Places Film Prize. Vote for your favourite for the People’s Choice Film. Introduced and hosted by Paul Diffley from Hot Aches Productions, and Q&A with several of the filmmakers and athletes.
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Climber's Summit
WHERE Studio, Nevis Centre
WHEN 6.45pm - 10pm Doors open 6pm |
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The condition of Scottish Winter Climbing
In 1906 Harrold Raeburn climbed Green Gully on Ben Nevis, a climb that turned out to be the hardest ice climb in the world and remained so for nearly 30 years. Currently, what is probably the hardest traditionally protected winter climb in the world is found on Ben Nevis, Anubis, climbed by Dave MacLeod in 2010.
Scottish winter climbers have always been at the forefront of world climbing. Climbing in Scotland in winter has always been seen as one of the toughest environments to go climbing.
Is this still the case? Do the ethical standards we set ourselves produce the best climbers or create an unhealthy elitism? Do we understand these ethical ideals and do we stick to them? Are we looking after the finite resource of climbing or do we need to tidy up our game?
Present at the Climbers Summit to take part in the discussions will be...
In 1906 Harrold Raeburn climbed Green Gully on Ben Nevis, a climb that turned out to be the hardest ice climb in the world and remained so for nearly 30 years. Currently, what is probably the hardest traditionally protected winter climb in the world is found on Ben Nevis, Anubis, climbed by Dave MacLeod in 2010.
Scottish winter climbers have always been at the forefront of world climbing. Climbing in Scotland in winter has always been seen as one of the toughest environments to go climbing.
Is this still the case? Do the ethical standards we set ourselves produce the best climbers or create an unhealthy elitism? Do we understand these ethical ideals and do we stick to them? Are we looking after the finite resource of climbing or do we need to tidy up our game?
Present at the Climbers Summit to take part in the discussions will be...
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Guy Robertson
Guy lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, where he works as a low carbon energy project manager. He has two kids, a mortgage and a full-time job, with his climbing limited to occasional midweek and weekend hits, and the odd overseas trip. He has put up new rock and winter climbs in regions as diverse as North Africa, the Middle East, the Alps, Peru, Norway and the Greater Himalaya.
However, it is for his domestic winter exploits he is best known, having for many years been active at the upper end of the Scottish winter climbing grading scale. His passion is for finding and trying new high quality winter-only lines on big cliffs - always from the ground up. Guy made second ascents of most of the hardest winter test-pieces from the 1980’s during the late 1990’s then went on to pioneer many of his own first ascents across Scotland up to grade X. |
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Simon Richardson
Simon Richardson is an enthusiastic Scottish winter climber with over 600 new routes to his credit. He is author of the Scottish Mountaineering Club’s climbers’ guide to Ben Nevis and during the winter he reports on the Scottish Winter Climbing scene via his popular blog www.scottishwinter.com
His book 'Chasing the Ephemeral - 50 Routes for a successful Scottish Winter' won the best guidebook prize at the 2017 Banff Film and Book Festival. Further afield, Simon has made dozens of first ascents across the globe from Alaska to Antarctica, and the Alps to the Himalayas. |
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