Mountaineering in Scotland by W H Murray

Mountaineering in Scotland by W H Murray

Mountaineering in Scotlandis one of the greatest classics in climbing literature. It records the early days of Scottish winter and summer pioneering, providing a timeless antidote to modern-day tales of sterile athleticism. W.H. Murray describes remarkable climbing adventures on some of the most iconic routes in Britain.

W.H. Murray was born in Liverpool in 1913, but two years later his father was killed at Gallipoli. The family moved back to Glasgow where Murray spent his childhood, school and college years before beginning a career in banking. He made his first climbs in 1934 and later joined a talented group of climbers in the Junior Mountaineering Club of Scotland. This instigated his lifelong love of Scottish winter climbing, and it was with this set of young innovators that Murray began to undertake the adventures that he eventually transcribed on Red Cross toilet paper as a prisoner of war.

After returning to Britain from the camps, Murray once more began to climb with undamaged fervency, and later took part on key Himalayan expeditions of the 1950s. In 1951 Murray was on the critical reconnaissance that established a route up Everest via the Khumbu Icefall by which the summit of Mount Everest would eventually be reached. Marrying happily, Murray built a career as a writer and conservationist, writing Highland Landscape, a counsel of protection for the National Trust of Scotland. Murray died in 1996, and his autobiography, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, was published posthumously.

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ISBN 13	9781839811685
ISBN 10	1839811684
Title	Mountaineering in Scotland
Author	W H Murray
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
Year published	2022-03-03
Number of pages	252
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