Lagganlia. The 50th anniversary was marked in 2021. Notes References Citations Works cited John Allen joined the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team after the time of the disaster and went on to become its leader. John Duff was leader of the Braemar Mountain Rescue Team at the time of the disaster. Adam Watson is an academic and hill walker with very great experience of the Cairngorms. Further reading Search on “Cairngorm Tragedy” to see 10 photographs of participants arriving at the Fatal Accident Inquiry in Banff in February 1972; plus one photograph of survivors Catherine Davidson and Raymond Leslie in an ambulance before or after their railway transfer from Inverness to Edinburgh on 8/12/71 (Daily Record 9/12/71 p1 "Cathy goes home"). All those photographs are copyright of The Scotsman newspaper. “link to SCRAN website” Chapter 10 “The Last Word”, p251-259, is an account of the Cairngorm Tragedy. Chapter 5 “The Cairngorms Disaster 20 to 22 November 1971” is a detailed analysis of all aspects of the tragedy including the Fatal Accident Inquiry. A print edition of the book was apparently intended but arrangements fell through, and so only the Kindle digital edition is available. "link to Kindle edition on Amazon" This can be viewed at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh (after prior arrangement) in file number ED27/556, title – “Outdoor Activities: Cairngorm Tragedy, November 1971 - Papers and correspondence concerning the inquiry into the tragedy” "link to NRS on-line catalogue". Note that the Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) transcript was embargoed for 30 years, from 1972 to 2002, which is the practise for all FAIs in Scotland. The primary purpose of FAIs is to establish the circumstances and cause of death. Whatever the associated legal reasons for the embargo, in this case it has arguably hampered knowledge, discussion, and learning from the details of the tragedy. Watson and Duff were both witnesses at the Fatal Accident Inquiry in 1972. At the beginning of this detailed and informative article in "Mountain", Wilson poses the question, “What, then, are the conclusions that have emerged to help us avoid such disasters in the future? Sadly, the answer is virtually none.” He omitted the second sentence when he republished the article six years later in his compendium “The Games Climbers Play” Wilson, Ken (ed), Diadem, London, 1978 (reissued by Baton Wicks in 2006). Presumably he changed his mind: perhaps due to some changes which