Bizarre weather on Saturday – in the Northern Corries on a AMI trainee workshop – Full on snow one minute, blazing sunshine the next. For the end of May it was certainly cold!

Despite Andrew’s best efforts to destroy my camera (he dropped it and lost the battery), we managed to get some film of him conducting a Tyrolean Traverse near the base of the Souter at the Fastcastle sea cliffs. Unfortunately, the camera-saboteur did not fall in. You can watch it here on Google Video (opens a new window)

Word from Everest base camp that our friend James topped out on Everest yesterday! Congratulations to James and his team.

More news on the Project 7 Summits website. http://www.project7summits.com/News.aspx 

Two days in the Lakes last week getting routes in between showers – Corvus on Raven Crag goes in any conditions – arguably better in the wet! It was dry enough at times to get onto Shepard’s Crag and climb Eve and Ardus.

It’s been very wet the past few days  – in contrast to the warm, dry weather we’ve had at the beginning of spring. Halli and I squeezed in a climb between showers at Corbie’s Crag a small crag at the back of Blackford Hill in the south of Edinburgh. Halli’s used to Icelandic rock which you have to climb faster that it falls down, so the route we did “Fast and Losse” seemed apt. Apparantly a V.diff, the sparsity of gear and loose rock in places gave this “easy” route a serious feel for a sunday morning!