‘…Attempting Eagle Ridge in winter would have seemed incredible to most active climbers at the time [early 1950s]. From afar, it presented an alluringly beautiful profile of graceful arêtes topped by sculptured snow and interrupted by precipitous buttresses. Not for nothing is it referred to as ‘The Queen of Lochnagar’s winter climbs’, and it is as emblematic of the mountain as Point Five Gully is of Ben Nevis.
Mike Dixon, One Man’s Legacy: Tom Patey, Scottish Mountaineering Club, 2022
EVEN THE ACIDULOUS and satirically inclined Lord Byron had praise for Lochnagar: “England thy beauties are tame and domestic/To one who has roved on
