Did Muriel make it to the true summit point of the InPin?. Not clear from the video. I must say that the summit looks like the top of an unstable boulder and I wouldn't care to try it. But well done, Muriel.
It looked like they stopped just short of some small pinnacles at the top of the fin. Do you have to literally go to the highest point of rock to bag the summit, or does getting on top of the main fin count?
@@adamlea6339 Hi, Adam. I am not convinced that Muriel did reach the true summit - certainly if she did reach the summit then that video does not evidence it. No disrespect to Muriel. At 6:05 she claims to have "made it" while still around 5 vertical metres short of the summit. TV presenters Nicholas Crane (2009) and Mary-Ann Ochota (2018) both filmed ascents of InPinn and they clearly reached the true summit - but both reaching it from the opposite side to Muriel and both using what looked like fixed lines to assist their ascent
@@BScar23625 I agree, but to get as far as they did is an achievement in itself if you are not an experienced scrambler/rock climber. Looking at that ascent I can't imagine myself doing it wihout a LOT of assistance from a guide. Given you have to abseil from the top, which means fixing the rope somewhere at the top of the fin, how do they release the rope when they have abseiled back down.
@@adamlea6339 Absolutely. All credit to Muriel. I had been planning to take a look at InPinn this year, and still might do so if there is a weather window in September. But I don't have the bottle to attempt it. As regards release of the abseil rope. Maybe they tie a release cord to the hold point of the rope and pull the cord from the ground when they complete their descent?.
