Munro: Mountain Man

September 21, 2009 By 4 Comments

There was an interesting programme on BB4 last night, Nick Crane (the Map Man) looking at the life of Dr. Munro the man who started off this whole bagging thing. Actually, it was probably the good Doctor Robertson that started the bagging. Robertson seemed to be bonkers, but then most bagger are!

You can see it here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mwgyq

Thanks to Des for the link.

Well worth watching.

Filed Under: People, Scotland

Comments

  1. Chris Townsend says:
    September 21, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    Haven’t seen the programme yet. There are good books on the Rev AE Robertson and on the Rev Ronnie Burn, the first person to do the Munros and Tops – The First Munroist by Peter Drummond and Ian Mitchell and Burn on the Hill by Elizabeth Allan. Both books are fascinating and have interesting photos, including a wonderful one of a relaxed and grinning Robertson sprawled on a rock slab in the Cuillin.

  2. Chris Townsend says:
    September 21, 2009 at 10:42 pm

    Having now seen the programme, on a rather shaky connection, I thought it was pretty good. The filming was superb and the Highlands looked magnificent. The lack of knowledge of the Scottish hills in Munro’s time was exaggerated. Some of them had been popular with tourists for many decades by then! Ian R. Mitchell’s Scotland’s Mountains Before The Mountaineers is good on this.

  3. Laura says:
    September 22, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Dowloaded and watched this programme last night. Excellent photography of the mountains and very good to see a presenter who didn’t fake it!

  4. Andy says:
    September 22, 2009 at 10:44 am

    I wonder who you were thinking about Laura !!!

    Thanks for the book reference Chris, I’ll see if I can track it down.

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