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SCOTS MAKE HISTORY 'WITH LEGENDARY' BEN NEVIS CLIMB

Team follows in footsteps of Touching the Void duo...and goes one better

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heraldscotland staff

Scottish climber Dave MacLeod has become the first man to climb the aptly named "Don't Die of Ignorance" traverse on Ben Nevis without the use of aids, more than 20 years after the route, thought to be the hardest in the UK, was last conquered.