Quote Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak View Post
My Cross country skis are proper old school steel edge skis from Rossignol, 75mm 3 pin bindings. leather boots with vibram sole.


I guess not many can say they've fallen through a cornice in the peak!!!

Any way I managed to tunnel, plough, climb my way back up but it took best part on an hour up in white out conditions....
First read this just after you posted it, Ian, but I thought I needed to digest it a bit before posting. Certainly counts as an epic in my book! I was trying to explain to my kids last night why we may not be climbing any mountains this weekend when we're in the Lakes, and your story came in very handy! This time last year we took them up on High Street in wind, snow & low cloud for a "big adventure" & to give them the experience. The big difference was that there wasn't the depth of snow there this time last year. Good job you survived to tell the tale! Could have had a broken leg as well - then we may have been reading about it in the papers rather than on the forum.

And of course it could just as easily have been me or loads of others on the forum & elsewhere who love getting out on the tops in wild conditions. Without pushing the boundaries life loses a lot of its flavour - for me anyway.