Founder of our collection, Mick Tighe, found this axe in Five Finger Gully on Ben Nevis when out on a mountain rescue call in the 1980’s. It is a classic example of a home/ workshop made axe from an era when gear and gear shops were in short supply and folk still had a ‘ make do and mend’ mentality coupled with a somewhat impecunious lifestyle when compared with the ‘throw away’ society we have today. Though looking a little crude, the axe is well made and would seem to be very functional with the right bits in the right places. We suspect it might have been made in the 1960’s as it seems to have had some use before it was lost in Five Finger Gully. We hope the owner wasn’t lost with it—-how nice it would be to meet the person who owned it…thanks in absentia.