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About the Author

Ronald Turnbull was born at St Andrews, Scotland, into an energetic fellwalking family. His grandfather was a president of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, and a more remote ancestor was distinguished as only the second climbing fatality in Snowdonia.

In 1995 Ronald won the Fell Running Association’s Long-distance Trophy for a non-stop run over all the 2000ft hills of Southern Scotland; he still likes to mix some fast and challenging outings with gentler walks. He enjoys multi-day treks, through the Highlands in particular, and has made 21 different coast-to-coast crossings of the UK. He has also slept out, in bivvybag rather than tent, on over 70 UK summits. Outside the UK he likes hot, rocky areas of Europe, ideally with beaches and cheap aeroplanes. He has also started trying to understand the geology of what he’s been walking and climbing on for so long.

Ronald lives in the Lowther Hills of Dumfriesshire and most of his walking, and writing takes place in the nearby Lake District and in the Scottish Highlands. He has eight times won Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence for his guidebooks, outdoor books and magazine articles. He has a regular column in Lakeland Walker and also writes in Trail, Cumbria and TGO (The Great Outdoors). His current, hopelessly ambitious, project is to avoid completing the Munros for at least another 20 years.

Other Cicerone guides by the author

Ben Nevis and Glen Coe

The Book of the Bivvy

Not the West Highland Way

Three Peaks, Ten Tors

Walking in the Cairngorms

Walking in the Lowther Hills

Walking Loch Lomond and the Trossachs