Elbrus was booked, I was terrified, and the training had to begin... Up till now I had spent 2-3 hours in the gym a week, mostly dawdling around the running machines and eventually committing to a 20 minute cardio workout and 20 minutes in the weights section. I soon discovered this wasn't quite the training my father had in mind. I later found out I had been booked for a two day trip to Scotland, and no, not to eat fish and admire the countryside, but to ice climb my way thr