What defines a Munro?

Dear Editor If your correspondent (Perthshire View, July 7) is going to write in about inaccuracies and tell you to‘up your game,’ she should be accurate herself.

She writes that Munros are Scottish mountains over 3000 feet. Leaving aside the matter of separate mountains and‘tops’ as irrelevant here, I would suggest that she has been careless regarding her description of height.

Sir Hugh Munro’s own words in his‘Introduction’to his tables are“attains an elevation of 3000 feet...and 3000 feet and upwards in height...”when referring to the mountains listed. Gordon Dilworth Moulin, Pitlochry