CMD Arete

Jack and Keith were both keen to get up onto Ben Nevis during their trip so with a good overnight freeze and a stele forecast for the day ahead we decided to head for the fantastic Carn Mor Dearg Arete approach to the Ben. After a very long trudge up to Carn Mor Dearg we briefly stopped before heading out across the arête. By this time the wind had picked up moving a lot of the overnight snow around as well as the fresh snow falling which set for some challenging conditions out on the arête with whiteout at times and some loaded sloped either side. Reaching the summit at 16:20 we had little time to navigate across the summit plate in whiteout conditions before a slide down Red Burn reaching the main path down at the halfway Lochan just as darkness struck. Both Jack and Keith managed well with the difficult conditions today and a good day was had by all.