Weather permitting, I'm going to try and do this route in Scotland in September. It translates as the 'devil's staircase,' and it sits just north of the stunning main road through Glencoe. A friend and I did Ben Starav a couple of years back, and that was the most challenging walk I've ever been near. The summit was described by our map-book as being 'reached by three quarters of a mile of relentless ridges, which are rocky and narrow towards the top,' it was terrifyingly brilliant. There was lots of crouching down ahead of ten metre long, three foot wide paths with huge cliffs either side, encouraging each other before chimp-walking along them. At the false summit, we clambered up a vertical section, said cliffs now falling away even further, and came across two stalkers wandering easily along the path. Breathlessly, I asked them if this was the top. 'No,' the younger one said, in his West Highlands accent. 'See that bit over there, the bit that's obviously higher than this bit?' I nodded. 'That would be the summit.'
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