Council should not be asked to intervene

Sir,

I am astonished that a Dalmally charity should expect Argyll and Bute Council to carry out expensive improvements to a remote coastal track and build a cycle path on Mull in order for them to have a stress-free walk to Iona, during the present financial crisis (‘Mull walking route is blasted as an accident waiting to happen’, Oban Times, September 28).

It must be a lovely walk but no-one is asking them to do it. I wonder how the pilgrims of old, clad in cassocks and sandals with only sticks to defend themselves from the pagans and wild beasts, managed?

When will people realise that the world is not covered in cotton wool and that there are places they should not go?