Mick’s Award
Founder of The Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection, Mick Tighe, is this year’s winner of the Scottish Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture.
Clement Wragge
Our old pal Alex Gillespie salvaged this remarkable picture from an old glass plate slide. Dating from around 1880 it shows the Peat Moss Weather Station below Ben Nevis – where the aluminium factory is now – with, we think, Clement Wragge in the background. At this time Wragge was ascending Ben Nevis on a […]
Ski Hut
Mick has now finished the ski hut and the skis are all displayed.
The Hardy Mountaineer
MOUNTAINEERING EQUIPMENT. IT is sometimes imagined by an ignorant public that Alpine preparations have assumed an elaborate, not to say luxurious, character. This is, of course, a ludicrous error. In truth, mountaineers revel in hardships, and, as a rule, take with them little beyond the few simple neces¬saries recommended in a well-known ” Report on […]
New item in collection re death of Charles Inglis Clark
This lovely, if rather sad, little item was recently donated by our friend, John McCall. Charles Inglis Clark was a pioneer climber on Ben Nevis in the years before the First World War and subsequent to his death. The mountain hut below the North Face was built as a memorial in the 1920’s. Still much […]