Ep. 218: Winter Mountaineering in Scotland - Christopher Sleight
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Winter is just around the bend, but that does not stop Christopher
Sleight from mountaineering. Actually, he thinks that is just
when the climbing starts to get good. Chris is a winter
mountaineering enthusiast who lives and climbs in Scotland. He
has also climbed in the Alps, Nepal, and the Canadian Rockies.
But winter mountaineering in Scotland is a major focus for Chris.
If you like to climb, this is a great show for you. If you like
adventure travel, this one will scratch that itch too. Chris is
also the host of the Mountain Podcast where he shares more of his
great stories.
www.mountainpodcast.com
From Chris’ site:
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are
beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home;
that wildness is a necessity”
― John Muir, Our National Parks
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| 0:00.0 | This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:25.8 | Episode 218, Christopher Slight, Winter Mountaineering in Scotland. |
| 0:31.7 | Thank you. Hello and welcome to the adventure sports podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville. Today we have Christopher Slight with us. |
| 0:54.6 | And Christopher Sleight is a mountaineering enthusiast from Scotland currently. |
| 0:59.9 | He is also the host of the Mountain Podcast. |
| 1:03.4 | And so we're going to talk about that later in the show. |
| 1:05.8 | But Chris grew up in the UK and has moved to Scotland where he now lives in a national park within sight of |
| 1:13.0 | some of Scotland's high peaks. And I'm really excited to visit with him about that. He's a new |
| 1:18.8 | mountain biker just took up the sport. And he also enjoys rock climbing and mountaineering and |
| 1:23.6 | especially winter mountaineering. Christopher, welcome to the program. |
| 1:29.4 | Well, thank you very much. It's great to be on. |
| 1:33.0 | Christopher, fill in the bullet points there. I gave just a little bit of information, |
| 1:37.3 | but tell us who is Chris? What's your story? And how did you get started in adventure sports? |
| 1:46.0 | Well, I got started through the Boy Scouts in England, which I guess is a really common route for a lot of people. |
| 1:55.2 | My dad as well was quite keen on walking and we used to go on holidays quite a bit up to the Yorkshire Dales in England and also down to Cornwall where my grandparents lived, which has some beautiful coastal walks. So I'd been introduced to it |
| 2:03.4 | that way and then I actually lived in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just north of London, |
| 2:10.7 | and which is very, very flat. There aren't any mountains at all. I think the highest bit of |
| 2:15.7 | Hartfordshire is about sort of two or three hundred feet |
| 2:18.8 | altitude, pretty low. But luckily, Hartfordshire Scouts had a base up in Scotland in the, well, |
| 2:27.0 | what is now the Loch Lomond and Trossack's National Park. It wasn't a national park back then, |
| 2:30.9 | actually. And I, when I was about 14, we had a sort of opportunity to |
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