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Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers

Ian R Mitchell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Luath Press Ltd

Published:1st Apr '13

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This work tells the story of explorations and ascents in the Scottish Highlands in the days before mountaineering became a popular sport - when Jacobites, bandits, poachers and illicit distillers traditionally used the mountains as sanctuary.

In this new book on pre-mountaineering ascents and near ascents in the Highlands, we have at last a work which does justice to those who lived and worked, travelled and fought in the Highlands before Walter Scott. - Professor Bruce Lenman, from his foreward

...will give you much to think about next time you’re up that mountain. - David Newnham, The Guardian

To have produced a work of such significance that is also fun to read is an achievementHIGH

ISBN: 9781908373298

Dimensions: 209mm x 139mm x 18mm

Weight: 300g

224 pages

2nd New edition