Raeburn's Gully - A grade 1 Scottish winter climb on Creag Meghaidh - Climb & Fly

In this episode of my Mountain Days Vlog series I climb Raeburn's Gully, a grade 1 Scottish winter route on Creag Meghaidh, hoping to then fly from the summit back to the car on my lightweight paraglider.

Considered one of Scotland’s greatest-ever climbers and mountaineers, Harold Raeburn has left a wealth of first ascents across the Highlands. Raeburn’s Route and Crowberry Gully in Glencoe remain prized winter lines, almost a century after his sad death, and his breathtaking ascent of Green Gully, cutting steps up near-vertical ice with a single ice axe, was almost certainly the hardest ice climb in the world at the time and not superseded in difficulty in Scotland for nearly 30 years.

His gully on Creag Meghaidh is at the amenable end of the grade scale but is more sustained than the other obvious choice - Easy Gully - also grade one. It gives continually interesting climbing for the grade and requires good decision making to avoid avalanche danger and good footwork to avoid the inherent risks of a fall.

Climbing and mountaineering are activities with a danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions.

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