Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers

The story of the Scottish Highlands at a time when the mountains were a sanctuary for Jacobites, bandits, poachers and illicit distillers, rather than the tourists and mountaineers of today.

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

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.

• | Author: Ian R. Mitchell
• | Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2013
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781908373298
• | ISBN-10: 1908373296