Climbing the Curved Ridge (Stob Dearg / Buachaille Etive Mor) 23.09.2018

The morning of Sunday the 23rd of September had promised to be a fantastic one. As a previously booked in day out had been cancelled, I jumped at the chance to use this window of opportunity to head out to my favourite place, Glencoe, to climb a mountain that had been on my to do list for well over a year, that mountain is the Buachaille Etive Mor.
Not only was I going to finally climb my all time favourite mountain, I was going to climb to the summit via the Curved Ridge, an exciting and scrambly ascent that is located on the mountains iconic Northeast face.
This vlog has to be one of my favourites so far...

Buachaille Etive Mòr (Scottish Gaelic: Buachaille Èite Mòr, meaning "the herdsman of Etive"), generally known to climbers simply as The Buachaille, is a mountain at the head of Glen Etive in the Highlands of Scotland. Its pyramidal form, as seen from the A82 road when travelling towards Glen Coe, makes it one of the most recognisable mountains in Scotland, and one of the most depicted on postcards and calendars.

Buachaille Etive Mòr takes the form of a ridge nearly five miles (8 km) in length, almost entirely encircled by the River Etive and its tributaries. The ridge contains four principal tops: from north-east to south-west these are Stob Dearg (1022 m), Stob na Doire (1011 m), Stob Coire Altruim (941 m) and Stob na Bròige (956 m). Stob Dearg and Stob na Bròige are both Munros; the latter was promoted to Munro status by the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1997.