Ben Nevis grand joins Loch Ness monster

Volunteers of the John Muir trust, working near the summit of Ben Nevis, have found an intact grand piano buried under boulders. Missing only its keyboard the grand was spotted during a spot of litter picking. Head of the volunteer section Sandy Maxwell said: "This is the largest, heaviest and most unusual thing we've ever had left on the mountain. We've always fought a constant battle against litter on Ben Nevis, but this takes it into a different category."

Surprisingly (or not depending on your views of Fort William*) this isn't the first piano on the Ben. In 1980 Kenneth Camphill, who raised funds for cancer research, carried a piano up the Ben; and down again. Between 1894 and 1904 a manned weather station played host to a group of scientists who devised a game that involved tossing boulders (and the occasional set of bagpipes) down the glen.

Perhaps, like the Loch Ness monster, we shall never know how a grand piano arrived on the summit of Ben Nevis. And, who knows, maybe if you look hard enough there's one on the summit of Cac Càrn Beag (Lochnagar), Schiehallion, Ben Macdui et al.

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