{"id":9658,"date":"2013-10-14T07:37:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T07:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2013-10-14T07:42:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T07:42:05","slug":"finlay-wild-breaks-3-hour-barrier-for-cuillin-ridge-traverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/finlay-wild-breaks-3-hour-barrier-for-cuillin-ridge-traverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Finlay Wild breaks 3 hour barrier for Cuillin Ridge traverse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finlay Wild leaving Gars-bheinn<\/p><\/div>Lochaber Athletic Club member Finlay Wild has broken his own record for the fastest traverse of the Cuillin Ridge – breaking the sub 3 hour barrier for the first time.<\/p>\n

The Cuillin Ridge is regarded as Britain’s biggest mountain challenge; the previous record set by Finlay in June this year was 3 hours 14 mins and 58 seconds. The route – which involves rock-climbing sections up to Very Difficult standard and hard scrambling for much of the way – includes 11 Munros. Finlay left the summit of Gars-bheinn at the southern end of the ridge at 12 noon on Saturday 12th October and reached the summit of Sgurr nan Gillean at 2.59.22.<\/p>\n

A video of Finlay setting off and after completing the challenge has been submitted as a walk report on Walkhighlands – you can watch it below (and comment via the report link<\/a>). Finlay has also won the last four Ben Nevis<\/a> races.<\/p>\n