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Making a selection of ‘the biggest and best’ seemed appropriate for this book (Appendix D lists the highest). But imagine the task if trying to pick out and detail 50 peaks in the Alps. As detail deadens rather than inspires, it was decided to describe the peaks from a personal perspective – to give first-hand accounts of their challenges – and to present them not as a tick-list but within the context of rewarding treks. I want to tell it as it was, to beguile others into emulation, and I have something of a moral obligation to do so, because nobody else can. Some peaks are most easily described in pairs or groups, so I’ve sneaked past the original concept of a neat 50.

The escape climb out of the Wandras gorge (Route 16)

My own wanderings have never been systematic. Time and again we would finish one trek/peak with most of the group demanding a return for some attractive continuation, while, at the same time, there was the lure of exploring completely new places. But isn’t this just what happens on the hills of home? Whoever did the Munros systematically?