Your scariest climb?

[Marc]

King Alfred's cake is saprophytic so how come it turned into a fell? Was the tree dead?

 

Probably something else going, 100ft Ash tree is pretty special though don't think I've ever seen one that tall.

[crackoff]

Hanging over a lake with ten foot deep margins, with all my kit tied to me, and me tied to the tree. On a willow that had started to split down the trunk, so the club finally decided it needed the work I told them about three years previous. So, there I am on the wayward limb that was causing the split, with a slight breeze thinking, "if this goes, there aint a chance in hell I'll be able to unhook me from the tree in time, nor me from my kit" all of which would have either slammed me into the water and held me there, or dragged me to the bottom dependant on which carabiner I managed to open in time. All the time I could feel the fibres breaking back at the trunk, vibrating down the limb... Luckily, dropped the limb down in two big chunks, and left the club to sort it from there. A few days later, dropped what was left onto the bank. That one was what stopped me 7-8 years back... really was as uncomfortable as I ever want to be.