Highland Games athlete Kenny Campbell carries a church organ up Ben Nevis in 1971 (Photo: Paul Newman)īut there’s more to the tale. Unfortunately for them the representative from the Guinness Book of Records failed to turn up, and the piano remained abandoned with their claim unproven (though how the dozens of hill walkers who climb Ben Nevis daily failed to spot it in 20 years is a mystery). The culprits came forward as a team of removal men who had carried it up in an effort to claim a record in aid of charity. But how had it got there?įrom the sell by date on a discarded wrapper of McVitie’s Digestive biscuits found within the wreckage, they could see it had been carried up in 1986. In 2006 a group of volunteers from the John Muir Trust were working on a project to reduce the number of cairns that had been built over the years on Ben Nevis’s sprawling summit, when they discovered an abandoned piano beneath a pile of stones. First man to climb Ben Nevis carrying a church organ “It’s a mental challenge as well as a physical one,” says one of the spectators in the film. The final day was completed in thick mist and 40 mph winds, but there were crowds at the summit to cheer his arrival (and Josh Groban to serenade him if this film is to be believed). Life is short, but if you’re into that sort of thing it’s worth frittering away 10 minutes of it watching this entertaining video about the ascent (especially if you watch EastEnders).
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Despite wearing gloves and knee guards, by the end of the climb he had blisters on his hands, had lost all skin on his knees and had aching wrists. He managed to gain speed by perfecting an innovative side swipe technique for propelling the vegetable.
Stuart wore a baseball players’ nose guard to protect his proboscis throughout the climb. Richard performed the task ably, and all the more remarkably in view of the fact that he doesn’t even like sprouts. Even so he had to be resupplied with fresh sprouts at regular intervals by his best friend Richard Crump.
He explained that in order to maintain their shape on Snowdon’s rocky trail and not fall down cracks, suitable sprouts needed to be both big and hard (which coincidentally is what his wife always says to him). Perhaps it did, but Stuart managed to maintain forward momentum and completed the 9½ mile climb up the Llanberis Path in 4 days, using 22 different sprouts. “Isn’t it going to roll back down?” a bemused onlooker asked when she saw him training for the climb in the streets of his home town near Coventry. Charity sprout nudger Stuart Kettell makes his way up Snowdon pushing a brussels sprout with his nose (Photo: Stuart Kettell) First man to climb Snowdon pushing a brussels sprout with his noseĬharity sprout nudger Stuart Kettell raised nearly £50,000 for cancer research last month when he became the first man in history to push a brussels sprout all the way up Snowdon using purely his beak. So here without further ado are some of the world’s more improbable first ascents. With the news that a man climbed Snowdon last month pushing a brussels sprout with his nose, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at what other silly things have been done on mountains.
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