Heroic stuff, brakedwell!
As you know, my last hike up to Saiq was in 2008 (to pay respects to Owen Wilkinson who crashed there exactly 50 years ago to the day: his Venom is still there).
I still remember looking at that cliff on finals and thinking of you!!
Lovely place, though! Even though now it's overrun by people from Muscat going up to their weekend houses in the cool of the 2000m high plateau.
Laurence