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Plot thickens over Ben Nevis piano
By Jenny Booth
A day after conservationists thought they had solved the mystery of why a piano is sitting at the top of Ben Nevis, there has been a new twist in the tale.
Kenny Campbell, a woodcutter from Ardgay in the Highlands, told The Times earlier this week how he had carried a 226lb musical instrument alone up to the 4,418ft summit of Britain's highest mountain, strapped to his back.
But now the conservation volunteers who found the piano buried under a pile of stones say that they believe the instrument is not the one carried up by Mr Campbell in 1971, but a piano hauled up the mountain by a group of removal men from Dundee in 1986.
Wrappers from a packet of McVitie's biscuits that
Mike Clark and his team of Dundee removers washed down with a bottle of whisky to celebrate their achievement have been found nearby, with a telltale sell-by date, says the John Muir Conservation Trust.
It was the trust which first appealed for someone to explain the piano, after finding it beneath rocks as they cleared away some of the many cairns that confuse weary walkers on the pathway to the summit. The instrument was in surprisingly good shape, its iron frame complete with strings.
Nigel Hawkins, Trust director, said: "We are delighted to have solved the mystery of the piano on Ben Nevis.
"An organ was carried up by Kenneth Campbell in 1971 but we can say definitely that it was not an organ that was found as there was an iron frame with metal strings.
"The biscuit wrapper which said ?'Best before 13 December, 1986', which we found in the cairn gives further proof that this was the piano Mike and his friends took up the mountain. We get 120,000 visitors every year, and all of them were walking right past a piano."
Mr Clark, 51, a retired removal man, said: "We did the exploit to raise money for the cystic fibrosis charity and also to get in the Guinness Book of Records, but their representatives were late in arriving and said they needed verification that we had carried the piano up the mountain.
"They asked us to carry another piano up the mountain the next day - and we told them they must be joking.
We were absolutely knackered but happy we had achieved what we set out to do."
Mr Campbell did however manage to get into the Guinness Book of Records for his exploit. He told The Times that he dreamed up his epic solo feat to raise money for charity, but the training nearly killed him. His first attempt was in July. He strapped a 350lb piano to his back and started up the mountain.
"I got to a 1,000ft," he said. "It was too heavy. It was strapped to my back and I fell from a ridge, I fell down about 100ft and it shattered."
Mr Campbell however, was still in one piece and in August he made a second attempt, this time with an organ that weighed 250lb. "I got to 1,400ft before I tore a muscle in my arm," he said. Some would have given up, taking this misfortune as a sign that pianos were not intended to go up mountains.
Not Mr Campbell. That September he strapped himself to a third piano, weighing 226lb. This time he made the summit, whereupon he sat down and played Scotland The Brave.
"It was recorded in The Guinness Book of Records that I carried it up, but not that I played a tune," he said. "I'm not much of a pianist but I can manage that one."
Exhausted from the feat, he stumbled back down, leaving the instrument behind him. The money he raised went to the Imperial Fund for Cancer Research, which made him a lifelong governor in gratitude, but he found less gratitude among his countrymen.
"There was a row about the fact that I'd left a piano on Ben Nevis," Mr Campbell said. So he went back up, intending to carry it down. "All I could find was two planks from it," he said. "Someone must have done me a favour," he thought.
Today's revelation might have opened the intriguing prospect of duets on the top of Ben Nevis, if only volunteers could find Mr Campbell's instrument. But the conservationists have dismantled the Dundee piano and junked it.
Now it is the Dundee team which is wondering if they have blighted the environment. Mr Clark joked: "I certainly hope we will not be fined for leaving litter."
See? I just KNEW there had to be alcohol involved! 
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