THE REVEREND A E ROBERTSON

Where better to start than with the ultimate Scottish endurance test?

Changing the course of the country’s mountaineering scene by compiling a table of 283 mountains of 3,000ft or above, Sir Hugh Munro’s name is synonymous with Scotland’s famed lofty peaks. (His list was originally published in the Journal of the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) in 1891, but today the official list of Munros contains 282 mountains).

Sadly, though, he didn’t climb them all and is thought to have been three peaks short of completing his own list when he died of pneumonia in 1919.