Carbost and the Cuillin ridge

I walked this ridge on 21 June 1986 with Douglas Clyde. We completed the ridge within 24 hrs and spent a few hours sleeping on the ridge in the centre of the picture. As I viewed the sky line memories came flooding back as if it had been last month.

It had been a glorious day and very warm. We walked from west to east and when we ran out of water after the Inaccessible Pinnacle we descended to melt some snow we found in a north facing gully. We spent a couple of hours in the middle of the night watching the mid summer sun as it briefly dipped down below the Hebrides to the north. It hardly got dark but we needed the rest and the panorama from that vantage point was stunning.
Douglas died the next year from a complication of a bowel condition, and I lost my closest friend and climbing companion. I have never climbed on The Cuillin Ridge since.