Climbing Down: Long Distance Walks in the Scottish, Welsh and English Hills in Manageable Chunks

by Graham Wilson

Gerry Dale (Illustrator)

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Long distance walks in the Scottish, Welsh and English hills - but in manageable chunks. Wilson makes an entertaining companion. Once he was fit enough for the Bob Graham Round (see Macc & the Art of Long Distance Walking), now he's the victim of a crumbling hip. So, he breaks the walks into sections and, instead of calling on a shuttle-service of friends with cars, takes to public transport.

The walks include an Alternative Snowdon Horseshoe, a Scottish Coast to Coast and the Yorkshire Centurion, as well as several Peak District rounds. And a new, gentler activity is proposed for the compulsive list-ticker: island-bagging. Wilson's experiences are recounted in his own inimitable style, with the usual eccentric digressions into topics such as coffin roads and cut-hopping, Munros and mobile phones, solo climbing and slippered pigs.

  • ISBN13 9781902173122
  • Publish Date 20 February 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Millrace
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 168
  • Language English