I'm a walker, writer and photographer based in Southern Scotland. I've written 17 walking guidebooks to the Scottish Highlands and elsewhere in the UK, and the same number of more general mountain books including the definitive Book of the Bivvy on tentless travel and the recent Hillwalking Bible. I am currently posting a weekly blog/newsletter ‘About Mountains’ and their history, literature, geology etc.

My special interest has been multi-day backpack trips over rough country, and I have completed 21 different coast-to-coast journeys across various parts of the UK. I like to sleep out without tent on UK hilltops, and have achieved over 100 comfortable nights on summits in Scotland, Cumbria, Wales and Northern Ireland. In 1995 I won the Fell Running Association's Long Distance Trophy for a 10-day run over all the hills of Southern Scotland – a journey of 450 miles with over 90,000ft of ascent and I once climbed the Mittellegi Ridge of the Eiger.

 

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