News: Comedians Hit New Heights

The UK's highest ever comedy gig has taken place. The show, entitled Summit Funny, was at 3196ft on the summit of of Ben Lomond. Over 100 hillwalkers attended the event.

Since then over 11,000 people have watched the video of award-winning Glaswegian comedian Gary Little being interrupted mid-set by a barefooted National Trust for Scotland Ranger called Fraser. Watch it here.
 
The climb and gig has so far raised almost £1000 for the charities Scottish Mountain Rescue and Trossachs Search and Rescue Dogs.
 
Gary Little and Mark Nelson, the past two winners of Best Headliner at the Scottish Comedy Awards, were joined by BBC Scotland Scot Squad’s Chris Forbes, Vladimir McTavish and Alan Anderson (Anderson is pictured front, the others are in the background). 
 
Gary, Chris, Alan and Vladimir are all experience climbers. This however was Mark Nelson’s first attempt to climb a mountain. 
 
Afterwards Nelson said “That was amazing, definitely one of the high points of my comedy career. My Edinburgh Fringe show this year is about me being a year older than Jesus. I’ve probably just performed to more people on this mountain than I will in Edinburgh during August. This was my Sermon on the Mount"
 
Hillwalker Paul Duncan (who had no idea about the gig until he arrived at the summit) posted on Facebook: “Last thing I expected to see at the top of a mountain when I set off this morning. Hilarious stuff.”
 
Organiser Alan Anderson said “ Driving up to Rowardennan we speculated that we might get a dozen or so nutters make the trip to the summit with us. On arriving at he summit we were blown away by number of people who were already there, sitting in the wind, chatting and having lunch whilst waiting for us to perform. Normally you spend 5 or 10 minutes at the top of a climb. But 100 hardy, and very generous, souls stayed up there with us for over an hour. Well done to all who made the effort and thank you for your donations.”
 
 

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