Some Scottish Hills
Sail Mhor from the slopes of Beinn Ghobhlach
Scotland has the highest and finest hills in Britain although they are all very low compared with the rest of the world. Ben Nevis is only 4408 feet high.
One hundred years ago last year Sir Hugh Munro listed all those hills over 3000 feet high and climbing all the hills in this list - the Munros - has become a popular goal of British hillwalkers. More than a thousand people have now earned the coveted title of Munroist. Unfortunately I did not keep a diary of my ascent of these 277 hills but I did write an account of my last 10 Munros just after I finished them in 1986 and became Munroist No.452.
J. Rooke Corbett was the fourth person to climb all the Munros and he produced his own list of lower hills, strictly defined as being those over 2500 feet with an all round drop of 500 feet. The number of Corbetts is 219 according to the latest survey data. Read the account of my last 10 Corbetts completed in 1992.
The 224 Grahams are the hills in Scotland between 2000 and 2499 feet which, like the Corbetts, have a 150m drop all round. They are named in memory of Fiona Torbett (nee Graham) who created a list of 2000 foot hills but the latest list can be found in the book The Grahams and the New Donalds by Alan Dawson (TACit Press 1995). My Graham diary describes our ascent of those which we climbed after acquiring the list, with only a brief mention of those (mainly the more popular ones) which we had climbed before.
There are many worthwhile hills less than 2000 feet high so here is a scrapbook of lesser hills.
four pictures taken on a Christmas visit to the Isle of Skye
.. and away from the mountains
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