aréte

Higher up, I swung round the aréte in a wonderful position and the climbing got more open and exciting.

The first ascent was in 1939 by S. Hendricks, H. Fuhrer, R. Gibson, H. Hall via the Chaos Glacier to the North Aréte.

It's certainly a narrow aréte, but I found the tiny loose stones of Am Bodach's unstable path far more disquieting than this ridge, with its well-worn, solid path snaking comfortingly across to the last top between us and our goal of Sgurr a' Mhaim.