Winter Ramsay round

Great acheivement. Hats off to that man

Jon,

I was the "man in heavy plastic boots" that you flew past starting up Aonach Mor. I am set on doing a Ramsey, but was doing a reccy for a summer round and only walked to the bothy at Leacach, where I met and walked out with Andy K in the morning. I'm in awe of your achievement. Apart from your obvious speed, strength and stamina, to move at that speed in (relative?) safety over terrain that steep and icy is a rare ability. Your organisation of kit and feeding must have been spot on and I've no doubt was based on hard won experience. Very, very well done!

Walking back to Glen Nevis with Andy K the next morning it occurred to me that had two or more of you succeeded in your attempts there would have been a "Scott and Amundsen situation" back at Glen Nevis YHA!

Regards
Jim Paxman

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Originally Posted by jwpipes66

just wanted to say well done to jon.
to give you an idea how tough he is thought this might help.
on my ramsay jon not only saw us off, met us at sgurr eilde mor and then ran the last leg with me, half of which as solo support but after all that and no sleep for over 24hrs went and ran the half ben race and finished well up too.
makes the rest of us look a bit soft,
jonathan whilock.

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I am really pleased for Jon. Jon had helped so much with our Summer round in 2011 and as JWpipes says above his strength is pretty amazing. Dan too helped us that day towing us over The Grey Corries when we becam detached from our support crew and I am sure Dan will get a sub 24 hour as well in the future.

Well Done Jon, amazing effort :thumbup:

Where do you even begin to describe how great an achievement this is.....speechless.

Yep, the more you read, the more interesting and impressive it seems. Particularly liked the kit list. Congratulations.

amazing effort. not as easy as he makes it sound running down the rock hard neve!

Well done, Awesome achievement, and what's next? Can't really beat that can you?? :thumbup:

This is one of the few occassions we can say, "amazing, a truly historic achievement". Good people have been trying to do this for years and years. Fantastic, very well done indeed. The last classic big British 24 hr challenge finally falls.

Found this by googling Jon Gay, for anyone that's interested - http://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/201...r-ramsay-round

(He also runs a cookery school and is one of Norwich's youngest head chefs apparently! :) )