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This is the second of three posts about our Xmas and New Year trip to Scotland’s southern highlands, trying to tick off some more Munros (mountains in Scotland over 3,000ft in height). In the first post, we tackled Beinn a’ Chochuill and Beinn Eunaich...

This is the first of three posts about our Xmas and New Year trip to Scotland’s southern highlands, trying to tick off some more Munros (mountains in Scotland over 3,000ft in height).
Warning: This blog post contains several bad puns.
‘How many Munros will you climb next week,’ my 84-year-old father asked me over Christmas dinner, ‘seven or eight?’...

Some of you may have clicked through to this blog post because the title intrigued or (perhaps more accurately) confused you. There are a lot of adjectives in it. What the heck does it mean, precisely?
The title needs all of those adjectives, for if I dropped any one of them, it would mean a different list....

A short distance south of 886m Pen y Fan, the highest peak in the Brecon Beacons (or Bannau Brycheiniog as they are now known), which I wrote about in May, is a range of peaks less well known to the outside world.
The Rhigos Hills form an escarpment on the northern side of an area of Wales known simply as The Valleys, a string of heavily populated parallel rifts running north to south through the upland terrain north of Cardiff. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries...