Charity CD for the Mountain Safety Trust
Tracks are now LIVE!
After a long wait the tracks are now on most digital download sites including i tunes. Just search "Grant Golding Reflection"
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Bear Grylls .........
Thank you so much for the cd. I love it and it has been playing at home lots! This note comes with so many thanks and I have great admiration for the courage you showed that day in the mountains. Stay well and good luck with the music in the future. Bear Grylls www.beargrylls.com |
How it all started
I have always loved the peace and serenity of being high up in the hills, growing up in North Yorkshire and walking lots in Swaledale and the Lake District when I was younger was a major part of my life.
When I moved to Scotland I was always too busy or too unfit to walk but over the last few years and a serious diet was able to get back oot and aboot!
2009 was an amazing year for me not only did I climb Ben Lomond my first Munro but also 25 others. The Trumpet Shall Sound went from strength to strength with more concerts coming in and it took me to other parts of the country for more mountains to climb!
I remember doing an evening concert for Upper Deeside Musical Club and the following morning heading down to Glenshee to complete 3 Munros in 3 hours.
When I moved to Scotland I was always too busy or too unfit to walk but over the last few years and a serious diet was able to get back oot and aboot!
2009 was an amazing year for me not only did I climb Ben Lomond my first Munro but also 25 others. The Trumpet Shall Sound went from strength to strength with more concerts coming in and it took me to other parts of the country for more mountains to climb!
I remember doing an evening concert for Upper Deeside Musical Club and the following morning heading down to Glenshee to complete 3 Munros in 3 hours.
26/09/09
I was asked to do a hillwalk for charity and as the phone call came when I was in the car on the return journey after completing Ben Nevis in perfect conditions the thought of doing this in cloud wasn`t appealing.
So I planned a traverse of the South Glenshiel Ridge a 7 munro 16 mile epic day out.
I worked hard for it and on the september weekend in horrible weather left the Cluanie Inn at 6am for a full day at 3000 feet up in the clouds.
So I planned a traverse of the South Glenshiel Ridge a 7 munro 16 mile epic day out.
I worked hard for it and on the september weekend in horrible weather left the Cluanie Inn at 6am for a full day at 3000 feet up in the clouds.
Creag Nan Tuiteam Sassunnach - Crag of the tumbling sassenach!
The day went well even with the horrible weather and biting wind. I completed the ridge on time and rang Elaine from the summit of Creag Nan Damh (Crag of the Stags) and said I was about to descend to the road and would be home in the early hours of the morning but will ring when I get back into reception.
As I made my way down the steep slopes I started to get below the cloudbase and came across a steep tricky scramble. I remember taking time and picking a route down and dropping my walking poles so they didn`t catch. Then I remember huge explosions and cracks and catching a glimpse of green spinning.
I woke up in my living room trying to workout how to get up stairs after drinking 2 bottles of wine but then realising I was still on the hill. The next time I came round I was blind and having a fit, eventually I was quite clear that i had fallen and need to get myself sorted so I used what I had to stem the bleeding on my head and leg (Buff neck tube was used to stop the leg bleed) I was very aware that my injuries were serious and needed help. At 2000 feet on a steep mountain there was no way I could move so I needed help. I knew I was the only person taking that descent route so there would be no one else passing by.
My phone had no reception at all and was useless - my survival whistle was smashed and my only option was to shimmy myself round and use my Petzl head torch to signal to the road that was nearly 2 miles away. A few cars passed but eventually I saw a blue light head off down the valley and thank fully it had turned and parked at the carpark that i was heading too - soon it was joined by other vehicles and I flashed the sos signal to start the process of me getting of that mountain and some much needed help!
After 4 1/2 hours Rescue 137 from RAF lossiemouth was on scene and I was airlifted to Belford Hospital and later transferred to Raigmore Hospital for specialist care.
After 3 months of intensive physio I returned to work and have been wanting to find a way to raise funds and say thank you to the key people that helped me on a night when I had accepted that I may actually die.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8277180.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/topstories/Sharpeyed-motorist-saves-injured-walker.5682631.jp?CommentPage=1&CommentPageLength=1000
Not a day passes when I`m so people to all the people who helped me - many that I have never met or even seen.
Valerie Gilmartin - saw the flash and rang the police.
Northern Constaulary and Kintail MRT - for arranging everything and rescue.
Rescue 137 - The big yellow lifesaver for just being amazing!
Belford Hospital - Fortwilliam and Raigmore Hospital - Inverness.
The Raigmore Orthopeadics team and Dr Kent for making sure I could walk out of the hospital with nothing more than an impressive scar.
And my friends and family for supporting me through my long recovery.
As I made my way down the steep slopes I started to get below the cloudbase and came across a steep tricky scramble. I remember taking time and picking a route down and dropping my walking poles so they didn`t catch. Then I remember huge explosions and cracks and catching a glimpse of green spinning.
I woke up in my living room trying to workout how to get up stairs after drinking 2 bottles of wine but then realising I was still on the hill. The next time I came round I was blind and having a fit, eventually I was quite clear that i had fallen and need to get myself sorted so I used what I had to stem the bleeding on my head and leg (Buff neck tube was used to stop the leg bleed) I was very aware that my injuries were serious and needed help. At 2000 feet on a steep mountain there was no way I could move so I needed help. I knew I was the only person taking that descent route so there would be no one else passing by.
My phone had no reception at all and was useless - my survival whistle was smashed and my only option was to shimmy myself round and use my Petzl head torch to signal to the road that was nearly 2 miles away. A few cars passed but eventually I saw a blue light head off down the valley and thank fully it had turned and parked at the carpark that i was heading too - soon it was joined by other vehicles and I flashed the sos signal to start the process of me getting of that mountain and some much needed help!
After 4 1/2 hours Rescue 137 from RAF lossiemouth was on scene and I was airlifted to Belford Hospital and later transferred to Raigmore Hospital for specialist care.
After 3 months of intensive physio I returned to work and have been wanting to find a way to raise funds and say thank you to the key people that helped me on a night when I had accepted that I may actually die.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8277180.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/topstories/Sharpeyed-motorist-saves-injured-walker.5682631.jp?CommentPage=1&CommentPageLength=1000
Not a day passes when I`m so people to all the people who helped me - many that I have never met or even seen.
Valerie Gilmartin - saw the flash and rang the police.
Northern Constaulary and Kintail MRT - for arranging everything and rescue.
Rescue 137 - The big yellow lifesaver for just being amazing!
Belford Hospital - Fortwilliam and Raigmore Hospital - Inverness.
The Raigmore Orthopeadics team and Dr Kent for making sure I could walk out of the hospital with nothing more than an impressive scar.
And my friends and family for supporting me through my long recovery.
Charity CD
After discussions with Heather Morning from the Mountaineering Council of Scotland she advised that a trust that needed funds was the Mountain Safety Trust. They send people to universities,schools and clubs to lecture safety and mountain skills as there is a high level of incidents from these sources.
With the Trumpet Shall Sound we aim to record a CD for the trust to raise much needed funds.
The track lising will include -
Wild Mountain Thyme - a favourite Scottish song of mine.
Griogal Cridhe - one of 2 pieces that are reflective and remind me of how at one and peace I was that night.
and to end the short CD - Maxwell Davies - Farewell to Stromness which was our 2009 encore piece.
The CD will be available online here and for digital download via Amazon Music and I Tunes.
Please keep checking for futher developments.
Grant
With the Trumpet Shall Sound we aim to record a CD for the trust to raise much needed funds.
The track lising will include -
Wild Mountain Thyme - a favourite Scottish song of mine.
Griogal Cridhe - one of 2 pieces that are reflective and remind me of how at one and peace I was that night.
and to end the short CD - Maxwell Davies - Farewell to Stromness which was our 2009 encore piece.
The CD will be available online here and for digital download via Amazon Music and I Tunes.
Please keep checking for futher developments.
Grant
Grant Golding is an Jupiter endorsed performing artist
