{"id":692,"date":"2009-06-14T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=692"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:11:32","slug":"aonach-eagach-and-fife-chain-walk-claim-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/aonach-eagach-and-fife-chain-walk-claim-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Aonach Eagach and Fife Chain Walk claim lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aonach Eagach by Iain Gillespie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2_15_3.JPG\" title=\"Aonach Eagach by Iain Gillespie\" width=\"310\" height=\"233\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aonach Eagach by Iain Gillespie<\/p><\/div>A 26 year old man has died following a fall from the Aonach Eagach ridge in Glencoe on Saturday 13 June. The Mountain Rescue Team was involved in the recovery as well as a Royal Navy Helicopter. <\/p>\n<p>In another incident on the same day, a 79 year old man fell from a section of the Fife Chain Walk near Kincraig Point. The walk which traverses the cliff, following a line of stone carved steps, with metal chains bolted to the rock and rungs to climb on in places, has been the scene of a number of accidents in recent years. In 2007 the local Council replaced the chains, and the walk, with easy graded scrambling, has been gaining in popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26 year old man has died following a fall from the Aonach Eagach ridge in Glencoe on Saturday 13 June. The Mountain Rescue Team was involved in the recovery as well as a Royal Navy Helicopter. In another incident on the same day, a 79 year old man fell from a section of the Fife Chain Walk near Kincraig Point. The walk which traverses the cliff, following a line of stone carved steps, with metal chains bolted to the rock and rungs to climb on in places, has been the scene of a number of accidents in recent years.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/aonach-eagach-and-fife-chain-walk-claim-lives\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21921,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/21921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}