Quote from: Will Hunt on May 04, 2017, 05:59:49 pmI've just remembered the one about Ordinary Route on the Idwal Slabs! You know the one!The couple who got benighted trying to climb Ordinary Route, not once, but twice! They apparently spent two nights out and had to resort to drinking from puddles I think everyone knows that one, but is it actually true? Surely it featured in the news somewhere?!I found https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=29936 , in which someone quotes:'From Ogwen Valley MRT:http://www.ogwen-rescue.org.uk/ovmro/reports/2000/i_narrative.html9th October 2000: 21.23 - 00.55 hrs. Idwal Slabs. Female, 30 yrs. Exhaustion, dehydration and swollen feet.The woman set off up the Slabs on the Sunday morning with her partner. The conditions were wet and they were very slow climbing. They did not reach the top of the route until dusk and then could not find the walk off. They stayed on the ledge for the night without waterproofs, food or water; these had been left in the rucsac at the bottom of the climb. On Monday morning, they still could not find the walk off and decided to climb down by Ordinary route. By dusk, they were still 200 feet from the bottom and the female could go no further due to hunger and exhaustion. Her partner climbed down and raised the alarm. She was retrieved and walked off. They had not called to any party in the Cwm during the day. They had taken 39 hours to do Hope - possibly a record.15 Team members." That link now seems to be broken, but http://www.ogwen-rescue.org.uk/incident-maps/?id=1062 seems to confirm the basic "cragfast on Idwal Slabs for two nights" picture.
I've just remembered the one about Ordinary Route on the Idwal Slabs! You know the one!The couple who got benighted trying to climb Ordinary Route, not once, but twice! They apparently spent two nights out and had to resort to drinking from puddles I think everyone knows that one, but is it actually true? Surely it featured in the news somewhere?!
The link is somewhat functional on the wayback machine
Aside from the tragedy those write-ups are pretty funny. "several calls from numerous mobile phones... they had one head torch among them" etc.
Cragfast is an excellent word.