It's a fine story but from an experienced mountaineer's perspective it'd be grand to to know a bit more about the nature of the accident like, was the guy on the bad step, was he on the ledge or did he just trip and fall ?

I guess to some extent this may be sub judice if the police have to submit a report ?

I was on the Ridge below the Bhasteir Tooth with a party at lunchtime on Saturday when a guy turned up to have a shiftie at the possibility solo free climbing the Tooth. I couldn't believe it and asked if he wanted to leave me his telephone number. He took my comment fairly well and fortunately he had a shiftie and decided not to bother.

Far be it for me to be judgmental regarding an unknown chappie's abilities but the fact that he was even condidering this on a solo basis simply staggered me.

Who knows - he may have been a world class rock climber ?

Too many folk wander about the Cuillin without a scoobie about the routes and the inherent dangers involved with most of them.

This 'accident' was the death of my uncle. A little respect please

Gemma, I'm very sorry. Absolutely no disrespect intended. I was responding to the article generally and was simply interested in hearing a bit more about the actual nature of the accident. Any disrespect you may have interpreted from my response was more probably directed towards the chap I met on the Saturday who was looking to free climb the Tooth. A fairly risky venture for anyone other than an expert [ and very confident ] rock climber. Again, sincere apologies for any upset caused and much regret for your loss.

gavin you're an arse stop talking please

I agree with Gavin on this one - it's useful to know what happened in mountain accidents so that people can strive to avoid them in the future - same as air accidents or any other kind...