Here are some of more pics of the situation last night.
Weather wise, we all got off the mountain just before it started to rain quite heavily. The ground was sodden with as someone else had said very wet vegitation on scree and clay. Very slippery underfoot. The wetness was due not only to the rain and mists but also to meltwater which for some reason I still don't fully understand always seems to be "wetter" than ordinary rainwater.
As you can see from the pictures the CR-V was fairly well bogged down, having slipped off the track to the right. I managed to get down to it OK and was able to turn around. After hitching a tow strop to it and giving it a good pull, it was fairly obvious that it wasn't going to move. The next problem was how to get out again. That hill in front of the Disco doesn't look like much, but it was just the first half of the climb which at times raised to almost 45 degrees with a frightening drop which seemed to suck you towards it on the left side. I did tell the OP that a tractor or a Unimogg was the sort of thing he needed really.
The top of the hill in the picture was just about half way up. I managed to get up the hill for a short way by using some of the vegitation under the wheels for a bit more grip but even that became impossible.
Alan managed to get to the top of the hill and winch me up towards him in his very well appointed Defender, but as he started to reverse back up the hill with the winch free-spooling, his wheels started spinning too. the result was he couldn't go any further up and there was no way I was going to reverse back down the hill which might well have resulted in both of us being stuck at the bottom. The only way was a winch to pull him up the hill and then he could winch my Disco up then. This we were able to do once a friend of Alan's turned up, but even that operation was fraught with hazards. Being unable to distinguish the track fro the rest of the mountain, Alan reversed a bit too close to the edge and started to drop of the track, at which point ground anchors and snatch blocks were called for.
We finally got back up to a point where Alan could turn around to face the right way, as he said to me on the radio, he was feeling much happier once that point had been reached.
One the rest of the way down the mountain which was even then pretty hairy I was able to continue giving the OP a continual b0llocking about his actions causing two of us to get stuck and needing yet a third vehicle equipped with a winch.
Dipps mentioned that even a twisted ankle can be life threatening in those places, well, yes I did get out of the Disco to answer a call of nature, slipped and over I went, twisted the afforementioned ankle as I did. And it was the left (clutch) foot too. Then when I got home, as I got out of the Disco, I realised that I couldn't take any weight on the damned thing and over I went again, but I dealt with that in an earlier post.
Still everybody got off the mountain safely. Would I have gone there on my own for no other reason than to see what a vehicle could do? Absolutely no way it was a totally stupid situation from the start.
Thanks to Alan and his mates for all their help during this rescue.
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