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I hope this will be my most unpopular book. I hope it gets vilified, I hope it makes people angry, I hope they burn it. If all that happens, it will have done its job. Sky Dance is written to challenge everyone who thinks that shooting thousands of birds, wiping out our mountain hares and burning our landscape beyond recognition so that a few rich men can enjoy a few days shooting, is the right way to use Scotland’s mountains. I’m fighting against driven grouse shooting. Against the persecution of our birds of prey. I want to see a different Scotland, I want to live in a place where the wild creatures we have decimated.
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This book will be really popular when I’m dead. Some people, many of whom haven’t been bribed,
are already calling Hillwalker a classic. Obviously it won’t really become a classic until after my demise. My publisher keeps asking how old I am and looking at the clock. Let’s put it this way I no longer buy jumbo packs of baked beans in case I waste the last two.
I’ve had fantastic feedback on my book, it’s number 2 mountaineering bestseller right now and has over two hundred 5 star reviews. It’s a memoir of over 40 years in the mountains and, I like to think it speaks for a generation of hillwalkers and climbers who discovered the outdoors in the 1970s.
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If you’ve ever wondered what it like to spend a night in a remote mountain bothy in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands, this is the book for you. Part truth, part fantasy, part hallucination, this book takes you on a journey into the wild and remote mountains of Scotland. It visits places rarely visited where the twenty first century has barely reached. Here dark nights are lit by candle light, the only water comes from a fast running river a hundred yards away, and the only entertainment comes from the stories you share and the songs you sing.
It’s a book full of lies and truth. The trick, for the reader is to be able to tell the difference. Some of the greatest truths come from the biggest lies.
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Scottish Island Bagging by Helen and Paul Webster, founders of Walkhighlands, is a guide to the
magical islands of Scotland.
Focusing on the ninety-nine islands that have regular trips or means of access for visitors, plus fifty-five other islands which have no regular transport but are still of significant size or interest, the authors have described the best ways to experience each one. Of the islands featured, many are household names – Skye, Lewis, Bute – while some, such as the isolated St Kilda archipelago and the remote Sula Sgeir, will be unknown to all but a hardcore few.
In 1986, the legendary fell runner Joss Naylor completed a continuous circuit of all 214 Wainwright fells in the Lake District, covering a staggering distance of over 300 miles – plus many thousands of metres of ascent – in only seven days and one hour.
Those in the know thought that this record would never be beaten. It is the ultimate British ultramarathon. The person taking on this superhuman challenge would have to be willing to push harder and suffer more than ever before. There is no Map in Hell tells the story of a man willing to do just that.
On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of The Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. And things would only get worse.
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