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Published: February 4th 2008
Travel Period: 3 - 7 Jan 2008
Ben Nevis
The highest mountain in Britain - 1350m. It doesn't sound high? I had the same thought but didn't realised it's so "untameable" until the day I went up to this mountain.
On 4 Jan, 8 o'clock in the morning, me and Jotas getting ready to conquer Ben Nevis. Today weather is quite extreme, recorded temperature is -3 degree at 900m level, wind speed can go up to 60mph where at its highest speed you could feel as cool as -15 degree. There are still some people going up to Ben Nevis, though we were a bit hesitated in the beginning. But at the end we decided to give it a try.
However when we went up to about 1200m, the wind was too strong and there was no clear footpath to follow - we were totally lost where we should go up or down! We decided to go down but all footprints left by us few minutes ago were being cleared by the strong wind and all possible marks on the ground had been covered with snow. We were very worried but lucky for us - soon we found
the way down.
When we got back to the hostel it was already 3pm - 6 hours walk with failure. I have made up my mind that I will come back again. Not to conquer it in such an innocent way (no map no compass) but will try to understand this mountain.
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Boon
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it looks so dangerous
the pics that u took showed that it was very dangerous to go up to the mountain with just 2 person with no guide and preparation at all. kong way, dun play play arh...life is precious...ha...there are still many wonderful things to see...