In reply to Kinley:
> I'd have preferred the article if he'd climbed it
I'd disagree with that. The world is overrun with articles about how people climbed things against all sorts of odds. I think it makes a refreshing change to read about someone who admits to baling from a route because it just didn't feel right on the day, especially as he managed to take away good memories despite the "failure".
It's nothing like 100 miles from Aviemore to Fort William, though! Also, the recommended approach to the north face these days is to use the car park in Torlundy and the path which runs from there, which were provided for precisely that purpose, rather than parking on the main road and walking across the golf course. The Torlundy car park has been in place since 1998 - see
http://www.mountaineering-scotland.org.uk/nl/36d.html - and is shown on all the latest OS and Harveys maps so it's a bit disappointing to hear that people are still unaware of it or for whatever other reason failing to use it. Perhaps a footnote could be added to the article to make the point?