Comments on: Munro: Mountain Man http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/2009/09/21/munro-mountain-man/ Chat about backpacking, trekking and hiking Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:06:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/2009/09/21/munro-mountain-man/comment-page-1/#comment-32268 Andy Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:44:56 +0000 http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/?p=1476#comment-32268 I wonder who you were thinking about Laura !!! Thanks for the book reference Chris, I'll see if I can track it down. I wonder who you were thinking about Laura !!!

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

]]> By: Laura http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/2009/09/21/munro-mountain-man/comment-page-1/#comment-32267 Laura Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:07:47 +0000 http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/?p=1476#comment-32267 Dowloaded and watched this programme last night. Excellent photography of the mountains and very good to see a presenter who didn't fake it! Dowloaded and watched this programme last night. Excellent photography of the mountains and very good to see a presenter who didn’t fake it!

]]> By: Chris Townsend http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/2009/09/21/munro-mountain-man/comment-page-1/#comment-32260 Chris Townsend Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:42:48 +0000 http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/?p=1476#comment-32260 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. 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.

]]> By: Chris Townsend http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/2009/09/21/munro-mountain-man/comment-page-1/#comment-32259 Chris Townsend Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:17:57 +0000 http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/?p=1476#comment-32259 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. 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.

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