Contents

The Munros and Scotland

Glen Roy – A Parallel World

Voyage of a Dawn Treader (Buachaille Etive Beag)

The Quest for Breakfast Above Loch Lochy

Farewell to Meall a Bhuiridh, Creise . . . and Fiunary

They Came in Search of Paradise (Corrour – Part 1)

Beinn na Lap and Creagh Dhu Spirit (Corrour – Part 2)

Mount Keen, The Mounth, and a Pan of Polish Borscht

The Smell of Men (Monadh Mor and Beinn Bhrotain)

Snakes Alive on Cairn Bannoch and Broad Cairn

Sgurr Choinnich Mor and the Lost Clog

Bacon, Stob Coire Sgriodain and Chno Dearg

Lip Service to Ben Klibreck (The Far North – Part 1)

A Nice Piece of Tongue (The Far North – Part 2)

Ben Hope and Glory (The Far North – Part 3)

Me and Carole King on Beinn Iutharn Mhor and Carn Bhac

The Yellow Brick Road to Geldie Lodge

Halfway House – Beinn Mheadhoin and Derry Cairngorm

Gleouraich, Spidean Mialach and the Belgian piper

The Old Dutchman of Lochnagar – And Other Stories

Lost Weekend in Glen Nevis

Glas Maol, Creag Leacach . . . and tank traps (Part 1)

An Socach and tank traps (Part 2)

Glenshee Munros, the Cowie Line and tank traps (Part 3)

Ice Cold on Carn an Tuirc, Cairn of Claise, Tolmount and Tom Buidhe

Lonesome Pines – Beinn Bhreac and Beinn á Chaorainn

Strangers: Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan and Mullach na Dheiragain

Demons on the Forcan Ridge (The Saddle and Sgurr na Sgine)

Something Special (Knoydart – Part 1)

An Urban Myth (Knoydart – Part 2: Luinne Bheinn and Meall Buidhe)

The Tragedy of Gwenddolau (Knoydart – Part 3: Ladhar Bheinn)

Perfect Dawn (Knoydart – Part 4)

The Eighth Samurai (Beinn a’ Chlachair, Geal Charn and Creag Pitridh)

The Grey Corries – And Spirit in the Sky

Lighten Our Darkness (Stob a’ Choire Mheadhoin, Stob Coire Easain)

One in the Eye (On the Mullardoch Ridge)

An Socach (Horns of a Dilemma)

A Tank on the Lawn (The Strathfarrah Ridge)

Homage to the Fish Supper

A Right Shower (Creag Meagaidh and the Mysterious Dundee Cake)

For Peat’s Sake (Beinn a Chliebh)

Lake District Days

 

Swindale – and this is Alvar Lidell . . .

From Gable’s South Traverse to the Breaker’s Yard

Kentmere – In the Footsteps of the Forgotten

Long Meg – Standing with the Stones

Yew Crag Incline and the Quarryman’s Bedstead

Martindale Fells and the Three-legged Pig of Prague

Soupless in Seattle (well, Mardale actually)

The Search for John Bolton’s Rock Hotel

Wet Sleddale and I

Bannerdale, Bowscale – and the Immortal Trout

Carrock: The Mine, the Fell, the Fort – and Nowt

Souther Fell, Blencathra – and the Ghost Army

Helvellyn with Ghosts (Part 1: Wythburn Mine)

Helvellyn with Ghosts (Part 2: The Waterfall)

Skiddaw. Permissively.

Robinson to Cat Bells, German miners and Czech cabbage soup

The Black Abyss (Grisedale Pike and Force Crag Mine)

Scafell Pike – And the Window of Discontent

Bowfell Revisited (Or Baldly Going)

Borrowdale – At the Close of Day

Hartsop Hell – And a Tribute to the Caudale Quarrymen

Send a Wind, Odin

The Cape Wrath Trail

A Night on the Cluanie Ridge

Grunters (A Brew in Camban Bothy)

Swimmin With the Wimmin – in the Falls of Glomach

The Descent of Man (A Fire in Glen Elchaig)

Bog Wood (Setting History on Fire in Bearnais Bothy)

The Half-Naked Man (Bearnais Bothy to Achnashellac)

More Than 39 Steps (Another Country – Part 1)

And There’s Another Country (Another Country – Part 2)

A Failthful Heart (Another Country – Part 3)

Hail Storm Behind Conival

The Ghosts of Sandwood Bay

Strathchailleach Bothy – And the Spade Behind the Door

Cape Wrath – The Edge of the World

Irish Highs

Above the Glens of Antrim

The Sierra Nevada Diaries

Sierra de Lujar – And the Way to San José

Veleta – The Hard Way

Tozal del Cartujo – And the Road That Franco Built

Running Over Figs (Lujar: The Second Attempt)

Men at Work on Pico del Tajo de los Machos

The Call of Cerro del Caballo

Alquife: A Small Piece of Cumbria

Walking Over Acorns (Lujar: The Third Attempt)

Flag Day on Mulhacen – The Roof of Spain

Sierra Nevada: Some Helpful Notes

The Madeira Diaries

Madeira: Stairways to Heaven

Madeira: Walking with Water

Madeira: So Let Me Get Right to the Point . . .

Madeira: The High and Mighty (Pico do Arieiro to Pico Ruivo)

Madeira: The Royal Road to Ruin (Pico Grande . . . nearly)

The Pyrenees

Tuc de Marimanha and the Twelve Amigos

Montardo – The Beast and the Beauty

Pic d’Anie – Following the Splodges

Pic d’Ansabere – and up the Wardrobe

The Howgill Fells

The Howgill Fells (Accentuating the Positive)

On White Horses (The Howgills Revisited)

The Pennines

In the Bronze Age on Barningham Moor

Bronzed Off . . .

Still Walking in Circles

The Circles that You Find

Empty Skies, Empty Moors, Empty Head . . .

Long Meg – Standing with the Stones

Dances With Pigeons

East is East from Stainmore Summit

Bleath Gill: Whatever Happened to the Heroes?

A Pennine morning – red flags and guns

Up Nine Standards Rigg, Sheepishly

Lavatris – And Other Roman Toilet Jokes (Stainmore)

The Forty-Second Fox (Baugh Fell, Swarth Fell and . . .)

Spanish Eyes (Wild Boar Fell)

Phantom of the Fell (High Seat and High Pike)

Lost in the Rucksack

Tide In, Tide Out – A Thirty-Year-Journey

A Long Short Walk for Jam Tomorrow

A Mountain Ritual – Czech Cabbage Soup

The Optimistic Man from North of la Mancha

The Thwarted Man and the Little House in the Wood

The Haunted Man and the Field of Jewels

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