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APPENDIX B Bibliography

APPENDIX C Glossary of Gaelic words for Common Mountain Features

APPENDIX D Route Summary Table

The Cobbler and Allt a’Bhalachain

INTRODUCTION

Bourblaige with Ben More on Mull behind

When Sir Hugo Munro compiled a list of mountains in Scotland over 3000ft (914m), back in 1891, it’s unlikely that he would have predicted the enthusiasm that arose for climbing them all. ‘Munro-bagging’, as it’s become known, has fed that part of human nature that loves to collect, to tick off lists and to reach for an ultimate goal. In this case, climbing all 282 of the 3000ft-plus mountains, or Munros, in Scotland.

While this offers a challenge and an opportunity to climb some of the best mountains in the world, the downside is that many of Scotland’s finest mountains are overlooked by walkers, purely because they lack a few metres in height. Yet what they lack in stature, they often more than make up for in other ways. This book champions just some of Scotland’s best smaller mountains, each of which has been selected for its character, location, views, historical significance, technical difficulty or simply its beauty. From the surreal and striking landscape of the Storr in Skye, the pagan festivals of Ben Ledi in the Trossachs, to the imposing and rugged ridges of Quinag in Sutherland, this guide is, in its own way, ‘an antidote to Munro-bagging’.