

The Winter Apprentice
I love this photo of me. It was taken on a Route called Moonwalk (IV,3 **) on the Little Brenva Face on Ben Nevis. I would have been about 21 and at the start of my Winter climbing Apprenticeship. It's a photo that shows how much I'd learnt over the last winter and also that I'd still quite a bit more to learn... Matt and I didn't know any other winter climbers, there was no internet to ask so we read lots of instruction books and made the rest up as we went along. John