STORMED EDINBUGH CASTLE
FORMER COMMANDO’S ESCAPADE
A kilted Edinburgh University student and former Commando climbed the city’s 300 ft.-high Castle Rock to win a £1 wager. Hundreds gathered in Princess Street to watch him perform a feat that deiied Scotland’s invaders centuries ago. But he declined to disclose his identity. Starting from the almost vertical West Cliff he climbed rapidly towards the ancient battlements. Then he made his way cautiously along the rugged ledge wnioh rises steeply over Princess Street Cardens. His only aid was from an onlooker in the castle who help him
over the last rampart,
The wages stipulated that I must enter the castle from the outside, he said afterwards.
“I had no previous climbing experience apart from my Commando service.
“A girl student in the university was watching from Princess Street as a witness.” One of the few occasions when Edinburgh Castle was entered from the outside was early in the 14th century when one of Robert the Bruce’s lieutenants, named Randolph, led a company of men up the rock to recapture it from the English.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 15, 23 August 1946, Page 2
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180STORMED EDINBUGH CASTLE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 15, 23 August 1946, Page 2
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