Glencoe, Scotland
This project was started in 1994 when I first visited the Glen and soon abandoned a career in the City to live in Glencoe permanently. Working at the Clachaig Inn and The Kingshouse Hotels (plus many others over an exploratory decade), gave me a chance to capture images all year round. During four whole years in Glencoe permanently my favourite outing was the Aonach Eagach Ridge which I have traversed in every possible condition and in a good variety of weather.The memories remain, particularly a savage day in February when a bloke was blown off/fell off the bad step on Am Bodach and went 500 ft in three impressive bounces (he was ok and took my advice to carry on descending in more control to the Anchor Bar in Kinlocheven. An hour or so later, the same thing happened to my partner, with the help of an ugly cornice and blinding spindrift - thankfully we were unroped and he axe braked to a halt 100 ft down the Chancellor Gully. I heeled the final huge cornice down the mountainside and somehow stopped with a lucky and wild throw of my axe which found some bomber turf