In August 2007 Dave MacLeod wrote “Yesterday was the scariest day of my life, and the end of the scariest ten days of my life. The impending climb on Hell’s Lum crag was hanging over me like a guillotine. It’s the most dangerous lead I’ve ever done...falling off from the crux or above would have meant death”. To Hell and Back is an intimate and frightening portrait of the consequences of one of the world’s best climbers becoming obsessed with a new route in the heart of the Cairngorm mountains.