CONTENTS

CONTENTS

1 An Eerie Moan

2 A Bump Too Far

5 The Long Hot Summer of Love

6 Cracked Alpinist

7 High Plains Drifter

AWESOME ADVENTURES

8 A Lad in Seyne

9 A Peripatetic Highpoint

10 Bottoming the Inverted Mountain

11 The Big One in One Day

12 In the Wake of the Gold Rush

13 Excelsior Among the Barkeaters

14 3,000m High in the Indian Ocean

ECCENTRIC ESCAPADES

15 Coasteering on Skye

16 Nutty Deals a Face Plant

17 Into Cairngorms Backcountry

18 Above the Great Salt Lake

19 Red Faces on the Canyon Rim

20 Canyoneering in Utah

21 Tatraneering for All

MISGUIDED MISADVENTURES

22 Blood Trails of Greece

23 Seconds Away

24 Going Underground

25 The Plughole Extension

26 Snowbound in Wartime

27 Icefall Shenanigans

28 Hooves from Hell

POINTLESS PURSUITS

29 Ben Neverest

30 The Tri-Country Day Hike

31 The King of All Ben Lomonds

32 Sand Mountaineering

33 Brollibond or Bust

34 Highpointers and Peakbaggers

35 The Lost Art of Festering

DEVIL’S ADVOCATE

36 Blowing Hot and Cold

37 Leave No Trace

38 A Mountain by Any Other Name

39 The Chain Gang

40 A Summit For All

41 Ribbons of Stone

42 The Psychology of Risk

43 Bothy Extracts

44 Hiking in Clan and Tribal Country

45 The Wisdom of Chief Joseph

46 Munro Bagging with Queen Victoria

47 Lost Innocence

48 I Keep the Dreams

49 Hillwalking Saved My Life

50 A Politically Correct Hillwalking Fable