Piano found at top of UK's highest mountain

[B33R]

A piano has been found buried inside a stone cairn on the summit of Britain's highest mountain.

Conservation volunteers from the John Muir Trust made the discovery during a clean-up operation on the 4,418ft Ben Nevis peak in the Highlands.

The piano has been broken up to make it easier to carry off.

The trust said how it came to be on Ben Nevis was a mystery but the mountain has been the scene of various stunts including cars being pushed to the top.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/4990662.stm

How random is that?

 

[gchick]

whoa.....

 

[The Equivocate]

Not really too random once you read that last sentence about various stunts involving pushing things to the top... still weird nonetheless.

 

[Michelle]

Just need to find out who ate the McVities wholemeal biscuit :hehe:

 

[Xyzer]

Lol, Thats a bit random!!

 

[ammo]

Haha Nice. Pretty wierd.

 

[LeetPCUser]

That is quite wierd. I wonder what they thought when they found that.

 

[Joseph]

So thats were I left it

 

[P10n33R]

I wonder if anyone there cleaning played a song.

 

[Rob]

It was carried up about 30 years ago by a man raising money for charity.

 

[P10n33R]

It was carried up about 30 years ago by a man raising money for charity.

Proof please.

 

[B33R]

They have updated the story in my first post:

One theory has been put forward as to how the piano got onto the mountain.

Former Radio 2 producer Paul Newman said he was walking up the mountain with his family in the summer of 1971 when they came upon a man carrying a piano up the mountain on behalf of a cancer charity.

Mr Newman said he remembered the piano as a half-sized instrument, strapped to the man's back using seat belts.

"He had a broad Scots accent and was wearing a kilt," he told BBC Scotland.

"We were coming down the mountain when we saw this surreal sight coming up through the clouds."

He said the man was leaving the piano on the mountain at night then returning the next day to carry it a bit further. They saw him on the third day as he neared the summit.

"He told us that when he got to the top he would spend the day playing it before pushing it over the edge."

It is thought that man could have been Highland Games athlete Kenny Campbell who said he carried a piano up the mountain on his back in 1971 although he claimed it never got to the top.

Some bits of that story don't match up - the part about pushing it over the edge for example.

Still a great story, who'd expect to find a full piano, intact except for the keyboard, under a pile of stones (a cairn) at the top of a mountain?

It's a pretty awesome story...

 

[Epic]

lol I'm surprised he didn't fall backwards down the hill due to the weight.

 

[Masahiro]

Hill?

It's the biggest mountain in Britain...

Does it break the world record for "Highest piano left for 30 years in the same place"?