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A narrow escape in Britain’s most treacherous mountain range

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

The Black Ridge: Amongst the Cuillin of Skye Simon Ingram

William Collins, pp.565, 20

Twenty-five years ago, my cousin Jock, a Scottish priest, rang in shock. Two priest friends, David and Norman, had been walking in the Cuillin in Skye. As Norman rounded a boulder, it dislodged and rolled him off the mountain. He screamed: ‘David, save me!’ They were his last words.

The Cuillin — or Black Ridge — slice the island of Skye in two.

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