Quote Originally Posted by wheezing donkey View Post
That 'nasty looking gill' is the parachute route as devised by ydt - I would not want to do it without him, he manages to string together a lot of grassy 'tongues' but it does get very rough once it levels out in the bottom of that gill.

But as Bob intimates; one guy who thought he could manage it on his lonesome did end up a casualty statistic.

Stood at the BG changeover point, outside Ken Hebson's yard, when Yiannis is bringing a contender down at night, it does appear that their headtorches are in vertical freefall ..... hence 'the parachute route'.

PS, new Walsh PB's or new Mudclaws are the order of the day
Ian,

Just in case there's any misunderstanding, wasn't Yiannis navigating the night that Nigel had his awful accident while descending the parachute? Or perhaps you were referring to another parachute casualty - I think there have been several if I'm not mistaken.

Interestingly, the Dallam/Lonsdale guys do a different version of the Parachute: rather than coming straight off the summit they head W along the ridge before dropping down the eastern flank of middle tongue. I went this way in hammering rain on my 1st BG attempt, looking back it was a miracle I stayed on my feet