There has been a major rockfall at the Etive Slabs in Glen Etive.
Chris Hague was at the crag and gives us full details:
"Some of the rock landed directly on the Coffin Stone, some bounced over it, but what I also realised was lots of razor-sharp shards of rock showered the area with shrapnel."
When climbing at venues with clear risk of large scale rockfall (eg. Tremadog) I do think about this, cross my fingers, and hope it happens at night! Clearly not in this instance but at least it wasn't at the weekend as Chris H said.
"We looked down and there was a huge dust cloud and smell of cordite coming up the crag on the updraft."
According to Wikipedai: Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in the United Kingdom from 1889 to replace gunpowder as a military propellant.
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> "We looked down and there was a huge dust cloud and smell of cordite coming up the crag on the updraft."
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> According to Wikipedai: Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in the United Kingdom from 1889 to replace gunpowder as a military propellant.
Not sure what you mean by that quote - but rockfall most definitely does smell of cordite.
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