Kipper Tie
Kipper Tie Hall of Shame
Each year the coveted award is presented to a club member chosen by popular vote to keep alive the memory of an exploit that the member concerned would prefer to forget.
| Date | Name | Memorable Event | Article |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Pat Cook | For resisting the hostile advances of an angry bull reindeer, at no small cost in soreness and bruises, for two hours | |
| 2009 | Steven Hibbens | For chasing his runaway flask down a steep snowfield, oblivious to the peril of the sheer drop below.. | |
| 2008 | Nelson Blackburn & Davie Blair | For nearly igniting the Cluanie Inn's fuel tank and leaving the 5 Sisters brotherless | |
| 2007 | Tommy McClure & Michael Festorazzi | For a 40km overnight trek back to civilisation from their Munro, when the car was just 8km away. | |
| 2006 | Brenda Lawson | For comprehensively demonstrating everything that can go wrong on an alpine hut holiday. | |
| 2005 | Bob Pate & Mary Molloy | For an aquatic short-cut by dinghy across Loch Quoich which the wind turned into a one-way ticket. | |
| 2004 | Sandra Doull | For starting up Quinag wearing lacy black knickers - on the front of her yellow Gortex jacket. | |
| 2003 | Davie Barr's Tooth Fairy | For replacing Davie's choppers under his pillow while Strawberry Cottage was taken to bits searching for them. | |
| 2002 | Billy Manders | For taking the evening's main course- a whole salmon - up the hill as his lunch piece | |
| 2001 | Leon Firth | For instructing beginners in navigational techniques, especially the use of coal lorries | |
| 2000 | Jim Beaton | For arriving at airport with all latest climbing equipment - and an expired passport | |
| 1999 | Ken Brown | For scaling new heights in climbing dress sense | |
| 1998 | Jim Kettings | For persistence and tenacity in leaving things behind at summit cairns | |
| 1997 | No Award | How come we were so boringly sensible? It can't last.. | |
| 1996 | Andy Shearer | For wearing the Wrong Trousers - the ones with the large hole where the cash should be | |
| 1995 | Ken Brown | For falling through his bunk at Coruisk Hut, squashing a sleeping Elaine below | |
| 1994 | Cathy Jones | For involuntary snow descent on bum bag - which contained strategically-aimed crampons.. | |
| 1993 | Jim Beaton | For exceptional talent in arriving at climbing destinations minus boots | |
| 1992 | Duncan Walker | For enraging a Coire Ardair cornice, which swept him ignominiously down a gully | |
| 1991 | Kenny Harris | For an ascent of Staghorn Gully with his boots on the wrong feet | |
| 1990 | Ken Brown | For losing 2 stone on a walking holiday in the Karakorum, entirely from his rear end |
