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About the Author

Alan has trekked in more than 30 countries within Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Australasia, and for 17 years led organised walking holidays in several European countries. He has written more than a dozen walking guidebooks, several on long-distance mountain routes in France. His longer solo walks include a Grand Traverse of the European Alps between Nice and Vienna (1510 miles), the Pilgrim’s Trail from Le Puy to Santiago de Compostela (960 miles) and a Coast-to-Coast across the French Pyrenees (540 miles). A Munroist and erstwhile National Secretary and Long Distance Path Information Officer of the Long Distance Walkers Association, Alan now lives at the foot of the Moffat Hills in Scotland, in the heart of the Southern Uplands.

Alan’s first encounter with the Southern Upland Way was in 1995, when he backpacked the full length of the trail. A decade later he repeated the complete route a second time, this time mainly using bed and breakfast and hotel accommodation, in order to research this guidebook. He has travelled extensively on foot in most areas of the Southern Uplands, having climbed all of the Donalds and most of the other hills above 500m in height, and traversed them from south to north in 2003 as part of his walk between Land’s End and John o’ Groats.

Other Cicerone guides by the author

The John Muir Trail (California, USA)

The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail (Cévennes, France)

The Grand Traverse of the Massif Central

The Speyside Way

Tour of the Queyras (French and Italian Alps)

Trekking in the Alps (contributing author)

About the Updater

Ronald Turnbull has written several books for Cicerone Press, including Walking in the Southern Uplands and The Book of the Bivvy. He lives in the Lowther Hills, alongside the Southern Upland Way, which he first walked in 1986 just after it opened.