ISBN Great Mountain Days in Scotland: 50 Classic Hillwalking Challenges (Collections) book Travel English 272 pages

Scotland's mountains are among the wildest in Europe thinly populated and still lightly touched by modern development. This is a hard empty land of rock loch and bog sculpted by glaciers and dominated by the elements but also a land of great beauty with water and mountains in a unique balance. That rugged beauty toughness and isolation are what bring hillwalkers backpackers and fellrunners back time and again for some of the greatest mountain days (and nights) to be found anywhere in the world. Some of the 50 walks described in Great Mountain Days in Scotland are well known classic challenges - such as the Lochaber Traverse and Cairngorms 4000-ers - while others approach a favourite mountain from a new angle or combine several in a testing way. Each one can be crammed into a single long day or backpacked over two to spend a little longer in this rugged and addictive landscape.