Today our featured post from the TGO Blogger Network is an amusing tale from mountain writer Mark Horrell. Don’t worry, Mark – we’ve all been there!
Mark Horrell is perhaps best known for his writing about big Himalayan peaks, but his adventures are diverse, and in this recent blog post he tells the tale of the first Lithuanian female ascent of Sgurr a’ Chaorachain – and a thorny controversy about whether or not they actually summited.
Read the full piece here.
“Are you sure it’s the summit?” she asked.
“Of course it is,” I replied.
“How do you know?”
“Because you can clearly see that from here the only way is down.”
“But what if it goes down for a bit and then goes back up again?”