It is usually climber extraordinaire Dave MacLeod who hogs the limelight. But now his wife Claire is joining him there with her film of how Dave prepared for and completed what is being called the hardest traditional rock climb ever, Echo Wall.

In addition to winning the Best Film award at the Fort William Mountain Festival in March 2009, Claire has been nominated for Best Director in Bafta Scotland’s New Talent Awards 2009.

The summer climb, on the North Face of Ben Nevis in Scotland, has yet to be graded by anyone else and as such, remains in the new unknown territory of E10+ climbs, pioneered by Dave himself.

The film’s footage includes a dangerous solo ascent in Spain and much of the obsessive Scottish training which Dave went through to prepare himself.

Claire’s intimate relationship with the Dave and the open and honest relationship which manifests itself on the film manage to strip much of the machismo from the climbing sections, laying bare the truly terrifying prospects which await failure.

In making the film, the couple have documented an important piece of climbing history, adding to the deep and longstanding heritage of the Ben Nevis area as a climbing Mecca.