Instructor Survives 700-Foot Plunge

A bit of mountain accident good news for a change, with a climbing guide surviving an estimated 700-foot fall in Glencoe while reportedly leading clients for Jagged Globe.

Max Hunter apparently fell from Stob Coire Nan Lochan, one of the Three Sisters of Glencoe, when a cornice collapsed beneath him. The BBC reports him as saying:

"I can't believe I am alive. The best feeling in the world was opening my eyes, seeing daylight and feeling the pain."

Following the incident he was airlifted to hospital in Fort William, but his injuries consisted only of cuts to his elbow and knee and a badly bruised back.

In The Scotsman, he's quoted as saying: I thought, 'Oh my God, this is it', and was waiting to hit rocks. But it never happened. One climber who witnessed it said there was this rush and cloud of snow, and I slid out of the middle of it at the bottom of the gully.

"I have also been told I landed in the middle of a crop of boulders and didn't hit one."

More details in the Press and Journal: www.pressandjournal.co.uk

You can find Max Hunter's blog at maxhuntercouk.blogspot.com